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Subject: Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:30:32 03/10/05

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On March 10, 2005 at 03:22:34, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 09, 2005 at 22:27:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>If I told you the story "War and Peace" and after each and every word, I told
>>you again all the words that I said before, I think you would be annoyed.
>
>Sure, but computer programs do not easily get annoyed.

They ought to, with an O(n^2) process that should be O(1)

>>Pass a bloody FEN, for crying out loud.
>
>How would you detect threefold repetitions, then?

I guess I would not pretend that the game of chess is stateless and pass moves
one at a time.  If I had to start up in the middle of a game, and I cared if
3-move repetition were violated, then I would pass the move list all at once (in
a single message).

>I agree with Anthony here.  I don't understand what the problem with
>passing the move list is.

I am fairly sure you will see a problem with G/1 and 500+ move games even on a
fast machine.

For correspondence games, there is no problem.  For everything in-between, there
will be less problems towards the correspondence side and more problems towards
the lightning side.



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