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

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:23:23 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 17:47:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 05, 2002 at 17:44:19, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 2002 at 16:26:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>I read here about one commercial which shipped with KRPKR but without the
>>promotion databases for it.  I don't recall which it was, though.
>>
>>Dave
>
>The interesting question is then whether the engine had this problem or not :)
>
>--
>GCP

Yeah, it refused to promote, that's why the poster posted. :-)

Dave



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