Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 07:20:16 12/01/03
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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? > It doesn't matter whether a certain action was carried out by the engine or by the GUI. For example, in the UCI protocol (which most participants of WCCC used) declaring threefold repetition is the duty of the interface. I believe that both the engine and the interface should be regarded as "one chess playing unit". >Roger
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