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Subject: Re: Move generation test suite

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:45:50 03/31/04

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On March 31, 2004 at 16:32:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>How will you draw conlcusions from solving mate in one positions? The movegen
>has only to find the mating move, if it forgets about all the rest of the move
>it's still mate in one.

You do not have to do only mate in ones. You can do mate in two or mate in
three. The point is that if your engine does NOT solve simple problems like
that, there is probably a bug somewhere. If it DOES solve them, then the program
MIGHT be correct :)



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