Author: George Sobala
Date: 11:39:41 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 14:36:02, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On November 30, 2003 at 14:11:15, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>I'm reading now that the Fritz interface claimed the draw, but the Jonny engine >>did not, and apparently some people feel this is an important point. But I think >>it's irrelevant. Perhaps the Jonny author didn't worry about detecting threefold >>repetitions because he knew the Fritz interface would do it for him. That's a >>FEATURE of the interface, right? > >IMHO, on occasions like this it should be required that any program uses its own >GUI. Commercial GUIs support use of commercial books, which is doubtful. Some >GUIs even don't call the engine in case of 5-piece root nodes but do the table >base access themselves. A draw reclamation by the GUI must be ignored; imho the >TD had decided correctly. > >After all, a simple text GUI is written fast enough. > >Uli > > >> >>Roger I quite agree. In fact, is not the use of the ChessBase GUI a bit like having bits of Crafty in your code? Especially when it can handle openings, endings and draws!
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