Author: Gabor Szots
Date: 06:34:55 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 09:29:01, Roger D Davis wrote: > >> >>In human chess, am I allowed to tell my kibitz (or the arbiter) to warn me if >>the position is a 3-fold repetition? >> > >The difference here is that you (presumably) are a self-contained entity. As >such, you don't need the TD to tell you when a threefold occurs. The engine, >however, is not a self-contained entity...it runs in an interface, or shell, >that is specifically intended to handle certain mundane functions, so that the >engine authors can better concentrate on developing the logic of their engine. > >Roger An argument against this may be that the engine must see forward in its thinking process to avoid draws by repetition. When the GUI says it is repetition, it is too late to make a different move. Gábor
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