Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:24:53 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 15:56:13, Tony Werten wrote: >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. > >Only if the bookmoves from the Gui were also ignored. If you choose to accept >the bookmoves, you also accept the rest. You don't choose wich one you like. > >What if you let the engine run during book ? You get to choose wich move you >take ? > >Tony Yes, what does GUI mean? As far as i know nothing with choosing book moves ;-) The bad thing is that a dubious design decision of a leading chess software company lead to such problems. Gerd > >> >>After all, a simple text GUI is written fast enough. >> >>Uli >> >> >>> >>>Roger
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