Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:29:59 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 16:16:05, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On November 30, 2003 at 16:08:51, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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 >> >>Did Jonny play moves from the gui when it was in book? > >Necessarily: Jonny's GUI had been the Fritz-Chessbase GUI and this one doesn't >call the engine as long as the GUI is in book. The engine will be called for the >1st time after the GUI has left "its" book. Somehow, it's a mess. > >Uli Uli, isn't it possible to play with an empty GUI-book? Gerd >> >>Uri
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