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Subject: Re: Why does my engine draw when playing arena?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:49:11 05/30/03

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On May 30, 2003 at 09:39:02, JW de Kort wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Corrently i'am testing my engine under Arena, playing TSCP. Every time my
>enigine has reached a favourable position, the game ends in a draw by mutual
>agreement. I'am puzzled by this because i have not implemented a function to
>accept or reject such a proposal. Is this a feature of Arena or does my engine
>do something wrong. Pleas help me because it is frustrating to se a game end in
>an agreed draw when he is up a rook and two passed pawns.
>
>greetings
>Jan Willem

I think that you should test under winboard

Arena has strange features that I see no reason to use them(for example it may
decide that a game is a draw if there are too many moves).

Winboard is better because it is impossible to give it these illogical
conditions.

Uri



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