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Subject: Re: WinBoard improvemets:

Author: Benny Antonsson

Date: 05:57:09 01/29/02

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On January 29, 2002 at 07:57:33, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>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
Yes YOU do, but maybe not all programmers.... It MIGHT be someone who gives a
none castled king a penalty in the opening !?



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