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Subject: Re: Mate in #6, no in #7, #7 again, still #7, down to #6, back to #7 ????

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:02:06 01/20/01

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On January 20, 2001 at 16:48:59, John Wentworth wrote:

>On January 20, 2001 at 16:45:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On January 20, 2001 at 08:40:31, John Wentworth wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone else seen programs annouce a Mate in X number of moves only to have
>>>it repeat it the several times, or be just wrong all together. I have Hiarcs
>>>7.32 and it does this frequently, it's like it can't count or it's not seeing
>>>everything it should. If I remember correctly, other programs I used to play did
>>>not have this problem.
>>
>>who cares whether it's a mate in 6 or 7.
>
>If nobody cares, why display it? If we are going to display it how about doing
>it right, instead of just releasing software with a bug in it.

My new EGTB format as opposed to my old format is just storing
win/draw/loss for this reason.





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