Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:23:10 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 17:42:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 17, 2000 at 17:25:09, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >[snip] >>The point is that TSCP loses games due to 3-rep draws. > >Can't lose more than half a point through that defect. >;-) > >>If 3-rep draws are not detected during search, what will keep it from losing >>these games? > >You could make an icky hack that hardwires an eval of 0.00 to any position >already played twice. > >Hash, if you must. It will give TSCP a monster boost, anyway. Probably bump it >up another category. > >Suggestion: >TICP: >Tom's Intermediate Chess Program. > >Then all the objections vanish. >;-) Happily John Stanback has saved the day with a small, unobtrusive function that counts the number of repetitions of the current position. Expect to find it in the next version of TSCP. :) -Tom
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