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Subject: Re: Castling is not possible

Author: David Dory

Date: 05:58:40 03/06/02

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On March 06, 2002 at 05:29:30, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On March 06, 2002 at 05:17:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2002 at 05:14:57, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>Do you really think the Washington Post gave the position in EPD?
>>
>>I don't know what the Washington Post gave, but the position
>>as posted here was not correct.
>>
>>If they only have the diagram, it was ambiguous.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>You don't know what the Washington Post gave?  :-)))
>The poster who started this thread did't convert the position to correct epd as
>he was not aware of castling.
>If they only give the diagram you have to assume every posibility. So a diagram
>is *not* ambiguous.
>In any case, table bases will not help, whether the epd string is right or
>wrong.
>Admit it, even it may be dificult, you were plain wrong.
>Kind regards
>Bernhard

I understand what you mean about the diagram, and taking no assumptions, even
though the posted FEN did state EXPLICITLY that no castling rights existed.
We should all have taken a step back and looked at that possibility as you
suggest.

I don't have a single clue what you mean when you say "table bases will not
help, whether the epd string is right or wrong".*

Not only will the table bases HELP, but they will help the program play the
position AS GOOD AS GOD, (rumor has it that's pretty good, even for playing
chess with atheists or agnostics)! :-)

When it comes to "difficult admitting", I'd hold up a mirror and not look to
Terry, et. al..

Dave






*(actually, it's an FEN string, but no matter).








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