Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 18:50:24 06/08/01
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On June 08, 2001 at 21:03:08, John Merlino wrote: >3) There is "a bug" in The King that is not apparent the CM GUI, but will be >VERY IMPORTANT if you use The King against a human opponent on ICC or against a >computer opponent that offers draws. In essence, if The King receives a "draw" >command, it will IMMEDIATELY stop its search and you probably will not be able >to get it started again! The upshot is that, if your opponent offers The King a >draw, it is likely that The King will lose on time because it will never make a >move after the request is received! This isn't a problem in the CM GUI, because >the GUI handles all draw requests from humans (and WinBoard engines) internally >-- The King never receives the draw request. But, this DID happen to me when I >was playing with The King on ICC, so YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! There are ABSOLUTELY >NO PLANS to fix this in a patch! This is the nice thing to have been writing utilities for many years, you get used to write in a manner that it can be useful in future. My intension (with InBetween) was to correct CP5’s error when sending a promotion to a winboard engine (a7a8Q instead of a7a8q). Now you have ; Stop a draw offer, set draw to empty draw := :) Odd Gunnar Malin
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