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[[FILE:Ernest Joseph Bailly - In Contempt of Hate.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px| In Contempt of Hate <ref>[[:Category:Ernest Joseph Bailly|Ernest Joseph Bailly]] - [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Joseph_Bailly_-_In_Contempt_of_Hate.jpg In Contempt of Hate], 1792, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
The '''Contempt Factor''' reflects the estimated superiority/inferiority of the program over its opponent. The Contempt factor is assigned as [[Score#DrawScore|draw score]] to avoid (early) [[Draw|draws]] against apparently weaker opponents, or to prefer draws versus stronger opponents otherwise.
=Too little Respect=
For stronger programs it might be dangerous to avoid draws by [[Fifty-move Rule]], as happened for instance at the [[WCRCC 2007|1st World Computer Rapid Chess Championship]] in [[WCRCC 2007#TerraPiHiarcs|the game]] between [[HiarcsHIARCS]] and [[Alaric]] aka TerraPi <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=132936&t=15295 Re: 2007 World Computer Rapid Chess Championships: games pgn] by [[Harvey Williamson]], [[CCC]], July 23, 2007</ref> .
=Too much Respect=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/nqgLNUfjkok/gfMr7amXCAAJ Wrong use of SPRT] by [[Uri Blass]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], February 09, 2018 » [[Match Statistics#SPRT|SPRT]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66793 Elo measurement of contempt in SF in self-play] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]], [[CCC]], March 10, 2018 » [[Playing Strength]], [[Stockfish]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/liMe2Ho53j8/GP9l07hSBAAJ Stockfish contempt testing] by Leonardo Ljubičić, [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], October 29, 2019 » [[Stockfish]]
=External Links=
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070707023203/www.brucemo.com/compchess/programming/contempt.htm Contempt Factor] from [[Bruce Moreland|Bruce Moreland's]] [http://web.archive.org/web/20070607231311/www.brucemo.com/compchess/programming/index.htm Programming Topics]
* [http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com/2007/01/guide-contempt-factor.html Contempt factor] from [http://mediocrechess.varten.org/index.html Mediocre Chess] by [[Jonatan Pettersson]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Contempt Circle of Contempt] - Prelude For The Implication, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifacts_in_Motion Artifacts in Motion] (2009), Space Imaginary, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
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