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Subject: Re: claiming a 3-fold repetition

Author: F. Huber

Date: 13:19:02 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 16:11:52, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On December 01, 2003 at 16:05:16, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>Most programs in WCCC use the UCI protocol (I think Quark was the only pure
>>WinBoard engine in Graz, equipped with some innovative patches like a loud drum
>>sound after each move!). And in UCI, you can simply print an info string of
>>whatever you want, e.g., a draw claim, etc.
>
>Yes. But you cannot end a search without bestmove. So pedantic people may again
>see the move executed on the graphical board. Actually, I think when using an
>UCI-like interface, one should let the GUI handle this. You practically have to
>let the GUI handle things anyway, like time adjustments, asking for time
>adjustments, ...
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Hi Dieter,

Arena _does_ accept a ´bestmove ´ without any move!
Long time ago I convinced Martin to implement this in Arena especially
for my ChestUCI, which could of course not return any move when there
was no mate to find.

Nice to see, that now there´s another use for this feature. ;-)

Regards,
Franz.




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