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Subject: Re: Detecting three-fold repetition?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:31:31 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 16:43:21, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>	since you are planning a new release of TSCP, I have a (simple) feature
>request.
>	In Xboard mode, the current TSCP does not send the "result" command to Xboard,
>so the clock keeps ticking.

You're the first person to report this, I think. Thanks for the suggestion.

>	Perhaps nobody has reported this to you, I have noticed that most people play
>engine-engine games (and then the other Xboard engine sends the result), and the
>strong human players prefer to face stronger engines (I play against TSCP when I
>want to boost my ego).
>	It would be very nice from you to add this feature for the next release of
>TSCP.
>Thanks in advance,
>José.
>
>P.S. TSCP is quite strong to be a "simple" chess programs, I do not expect a
>beginner to beat it.

:)  That's actually a complete surprise to me. The thing's only like 1000 lines
long!

-Tom



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