Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:40:50 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 14:16:37, Bruce Moreland wrote: [snip] >I don't see what was wrong with what I said. 1. d4 Nf6 is a perfectly fine >board position, which has occurred once in the second game, and which can be >repeated in the game if both players cooperate to do this. The position didn't >occur in the first game. > >All I'm tring to say is that two "nodes" really aren't identical unless the >50-move counter is the same, and the positions between where you are and the >last non-reversible move are the same (although they can occur in different >order). Of course, the castling flags and en-passant legality need to be the >same, too. It seems to me (from an analysis standpoint) that you could perform calculations without worrying about a counter, and then (in a game situation) you can alter the plan at runtime if your counter tells you you must push a pawn or whatever. This is from the standpoint of having a database with "best moves" in it.
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