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Subject: Re: Game 21 should be scored as a win for Shredder!

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:26:44 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 12:59:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>It is something that the programmer has control over.
>A lot of customers use part of the tablebases so programs should know to play
>only with part of them.

It's not about having part of the tablebases. It's about having
specific combinations that will not work. I'd be surprised if
any program actually ships with a set that causes problems like
this.

>If they do not know then it is the programmer's fault.
>I agree with jouni uski here.

Well, Shredder violently complains about it, as do most
programs.

>I did not implement tablebases in movei but when I decide to do it I am going >to do it in a correct way.

You will have the exact same problem then. This has nothing to do with
supporting them correctly - it's an explicit messup on part of the user
you have to specifically take into account.

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GCP



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