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Subject: Re: 3fold repetition, ep squares and EGTBs

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 14:28:09 08/03/01

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On August 03, 2001 at 16:57:06, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>those dxe3 is possible. I do not remember the exact wording but the spirit of
>the rules were that the 3 positions should be "photographically" and
>"dynamically" identical.

Miguel, thanks for confirming my interpretation of the chess rules in this case.
I can add, that I really like your formulation about "photographically" and
"dynamically".

>[...] Even worse, I follow the silly
>FEN convention about the ep squares

I totally agree with you. It doesn't make any sense at all to me. To the
contrary, it may inspire subtle bugs ...


>Maybe it is not very expensive to put the correct hash signature after you
>"play" the move and write it down on the score sheet

Yep. I have already (almost) implemented exactly as you suggest.

Regards,
Dieter




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