Author: Derek Mauro
Date: 08:15:57 02/11/06
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On February 11, 2006 at 10:44:16, h.g.muller wrote: >You are right: I did not think of implementing promotions. (That could be fixed >in a few minutes, of course, but for some reason I took the directive to not >worry about e.p., castling and double move also to not worry about promotion. >Without real justification, of course, it does not specify that explicitly...) > >Like you say, the problems do not really seem well defined, which makes >automated testing kind of a lottery. Would it tell you which test it failed, and >give you a second chance? It seems a bit hard to irrevocably reject solutions >just because the contestant picked the wrong direction of play for the >upper-case pieces... Sorry, this is my fault. The questions are well defined on the problem sheet. It was me who didn't feel like typing out the entire 2 pages. I forgot to mention white pieces are uppercase and always on the bottom. You can also ignore promotion and stalemate rules. Multiple submissions are also ok, in fact I submitted my solution 6 times.
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