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Subject: Re: Engine versus Interface claiming the draw...

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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