Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 12:32:37 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 15:11:14, martin fierz wrote: >On December 09, 2003 at 14:54:42, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On December 09, 2003 at 14:43:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On December 09, 2003 at 14:41:39, Matthew Hull wrote: >>> >>> >>>>If the GUI can play half the game (opening moves), then it is part of the >>>>chess-playing software. The engine/GUI are one chess-playing entitiy. >>>>Therefore, you point is egregiously in error. >>> >>>Who says the GUI must play the opening moves?! >> >>Nobody says that the GUI "must" do one thing or another. It is the seperation of >>tasks. For example, you can let the interface play the opening moves, and do the >>draw claim; let it only do the draw claim; do nothing; etc. There is no strict >>border between the engine and the interface (read the WinBoard and UCI >>protocols). I don't see how you can make the seperation... > >i suggest: the engine has to deal with any position that is not in a database >(opening/endgame). the GUI can deal with all "mindless" tasks, meaning all >database lookups. > >point being, that whether you let the GUI execute the moves in your book or >whether you let the engine execute the moves in your book doesn't matter, both >will choose the same moves if you give them the same book. same once you're in >the tablebase. in this sense, it doesn't matter whether you let the GUI or >engine do this. > >but choosing whether to claim a draw or not is a conscious decision by the >chess-playing entity (be it human or computer). you are not forced to claim it, >and therefore you must make a decision whether you want to claim it or not. >since this is not a mindless database lookup, i believe the engine should decide >whether it claims the draw or not. > >cheers > martin Maybe the problem is a third party GUI that is 'chess active'. It should do simply what its engine master tells it (and relay information) and nothing more. Frank
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