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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:56:02 12/06/02

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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


Actually it is a program bug.  Not having the promotion case but having the pawn
case
leads to the problem.  It can trivially be fixed as can be seen in Crafty's
source...




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