Would engines accept a draw on move 1 from white?

[JohnW]

Not trying to be silly here, but I notice that neither the Fritz interface or Arena allow you to offer a draw before you make the first move as white.
If you could do that, would engines accept it since everything is even?

[syzygy]

Not trying to be silly here, but I notice that neither the Fritz interface or Arena allow you to offer a draw before you make the first move as white.
If you could do that, would engines accept it since everything is even?

That is determined by the draw-acceptance rules programmed by the engine's programmer.

UCI engines have no concept of draw offers, so they will not make or accept a draw offer under any circumstance.

[JohnW]

UCI engines have no concept of draw offers, so they will not make or accept a draw offer under any circumstance.

Really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the info..

[syzygy]

UCI engines have no concept of draw offers, so they will not make or accept a draw offer under any circumstance.

Really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the info..

If you ever catch an UCI engine seemingly accepting a draw offer, it is something outside the engine that accepts it, such as the operator or the GUI.

[Luis Babboni]

Soberango, till version 0.06.2, has accept every draw offer the opponent made.
Was a bug cause I forgot to delete the instruction to make that that I placed in the code in earlier than first public version of Soberango when it was unable to finish a game!