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Subject: Re: Thanks, Bas !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:39:42 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 17:33:05, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 16:44:17, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>
>>Till today my engine ponders and analyzes only in UCI mode.
>>All attempts to find my way through the messy Winboard protocol have failed.
>>Some say Winboard has a force mode. They however never name the other modes.
>>
>>Matthias.
>
>You are not the only one of course, I remember having problems too, and NEVER
>have been 100% satisfied EVER about my WB code. I got it to work only after I
>got stuck a couple of times first, and finally realized it was a tough job and
>it simply can't be done right in a couple of hours. Got a command. Wait, AM I
>pondering? If yes, do I have to stop the search? Oops, it pondered to mate, it
>is not searching. Different case. But uhm, do I have to retract that pondermove?
>Depends on the command. Mindboggling.

I think that it can be easy if someone may right a simple pondering engine.

I think that if someone only add pondering to tscp and make the code public then
it may help programmers to implement pondering in a short time.

Uri



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