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Subject: Re: WinBoard improvemets:

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 04:57:33 01/29/02

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>6. Maybe WB could send "setboard" after every move. There would be no need to
>program a move parses, engine wouldn't have to remember and save the game
>history. So allways when the board changes, "setboard" is sent. I can't think
>now any drawbacks in this but it would make things a lot easier: no need for
>"undo" and maybe "new" commands in analyze mode.
>
>Since the setboard-command takes a fen-string as a parameter... your program
>cannot know if your king has castled or not... and therefor it might think it
>should have a penalty for that ?

Well, at least my evaluation function is based on positions, not on moves. If
the king is in safe, it is in safe no matter how it got safe... I don't need to
know if the king did castling or not.


Severi



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