Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 02:44:18 12/01/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 13:47:44, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
[snip]
>Do you remember 95 Paderborn, XXXX-CSTal?
>CSTal had mate in 3 or so, but the grafical chessboard paints
>a knight instead a queen after the final promotation and CSTal
>got mated therefore.
LOL!!! What a way to lose a match! I would be sooo angry I couldn't sleep for 2
weeks I bet! :)
On a more serious note: this is yet another example where the decision of the
ICGA is not wrong really. It's a very unlucky decision surely, but it's not
wrong in the sense that it contraticts with the rules. Fact is that the rules
for computer chess are simply not very clear in these cases.
I fear they will stay vague...
As for the xboard-protocol: the best IMHO would be a command like "draw {move}"
or something along that lines.
First sending the move and THEN send "draw" is simply wrong _strictly speaking_.
First sending draw and then the move probably confuses the protocol. :) Since
the engine can't write something on the scoreboard, the "draw {move}" would be
the clean way to handle this case.
Sargon
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