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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