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Subject: Re: Things to know about The King

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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