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Subject: Re: General Tips and Tricks for debugging a search.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:22:57 06/16/05

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On June 16, 2005 at 14:15:32, Michael Diosi wrote:

>On June 16, 2005 at 14:09:00, Cesar Contreras wrote:
>
>>It seems you lack of arguments ...
>
>Hello,
>
>This position is just a "hint". There is much more out there, I am sure you will
>find it when checking your source code.
>
>It seems that Prof. Dr Hyatt thinks different about this issue as he is going to
>fix it, but of course you are free to think and say what you want, even if I
>think that someone who is not able to implement even elementary chess rules in
>his program shouldn't jump on people pointing him to bugs in his program. A
>"thank you" would have been nice but you take everything as a personal attack.
>Better if you just go and fix it or make some positive insight, this is not
>positive.
>
>Best,
>
>Michael

I do not think that the problem is inability and the problem may be that some
programmers simply do not care about it.

Fixing problems like that is not an hard task for programmers.

Not accepting every illegal position is harder and seem to me impossible because
there are many cases like white king at b3 that is threated by 2 black rook from
b5 and a3 and you need to be careful not include white king at b1 that is
threated by 2 black rooks from b3 and a1 because it is possible by last move
b2xa1=Rook.

Uri



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