Author: William H Rogers
Date: 10:06:45 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 12:48:10, Leen Ammeraal wrote: > >I am not very familiar with tscp, but I suppose you should read the code >as follows: >If ply is nonzero, we look if there is a repetition of positions >in the previous moves. If so, reps returns a nonzero >value, possibly 1, indicating 'true'. (Remember, in C the value >0 means 'false' and any nonzero value 'true'.) Then the evaluation >function should return 0. This not a logical but rather a numerical value, >indicating that a continuation of the game in this way will lead to a draw. >I don't think this is related to the 50 moves rule. >Leen You are correct. Three moves is just another way to detect a draw. The 50 move rule also detects a draw if no pawn has been moved in the last 50 moves or a piece has been captured bill
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