Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 15:10:18 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 17:55:10, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>On May 30, 2002 at 17:36:36, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>
>>I propose to eliminate en passant capture. They are a pain to code, imagine all
>>the "if () {}" that we could eliminate!. Now that I think better, I would be
>>great to eliminate the chance for the pawns to move two squares at the
>>beginning. En passant is not issue in that case and coding will be even easier!
>
>Good ideas, but not consequent enough. You forgot, that those stupid pawns
>capture differently, than they move. Another bunch of ugly ifs in many move
>generators. From an aesthetic point of view, one may also dislike the
>irreversibility of pawn moves, although this won't make the move generator more
>complicated.
>
>-- Dieter
Of course, you are a much more experienced programmer than me.
The most succesfull programming strategy is not to code what the customer wants,
but to convince the customer to change their habits. That leads to faster and
well debugged programs and happy customers.
Regards,
Miguel
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