Author: Tony Werten
Date: 12:56:13 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 14:36:02, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On November 30, 2003 at 14:11:15, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>I'm reading now that the Fritz interface claimed the draw, but the Jonny engine >>did not, and apparently some people feel this is an important point. But I think >>it's irrelevant. Perhaps the Jonny author didn't worry about detecting threefold >>repetitions because he knew the Fritz interface would do it for him. That's a >>FEATURE of the interface, right? > >IMHO, on occasions like this it should be required that any program uses its own >GUI. Commercial GUIs support use of commercial books, which is doubtful. Some >GUIs even don't call the engine in case of 5-piece root nodes but do the table >base access themselves. A draw reclamation by the GUI must be ignored; imho the >TD had decided correctly. Only if the bookmoves from the Gui were also ignored. If you choose to accept the bookmoves, you also accept the rest. You don't choose wich one you like. What if you let the engine run during book ? You get to choose wich move you take ? Tony > >After all, a simple text GUI is written fast enough. > >Uli > > >> >>Roger
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