Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:40:15 02/23/04
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On February 23, 2004 at 13:28:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 23, 2004 at 07:02:59, martin fierz wrote: > >>aloha, >> >>i have a question about pins. pins are a rather important feature in chess; some >>of them are not so bad, some are deadly. i just happened to chat briefly with >>anthony cozzie on ICC, and he said he didn't do any pin detection. i detect >>pins, but i don't evaluate whether a pin is not so bad or deadly. my questions >>are: >>-> are you detecting pins in your program? > >yes > >>-> if yes, do you try to distinguish between different pins? > >yes > >Note that original gnuchess 4.0 like written by John Stanback, before Dan Corbit >crippled it to gnuchess 5.0 bitboards (conceptual crippling gnuchess), was doing >pins too. The programmers who are involved in the developement of gnuchess 5.0 are Chua Kong-Sian and Stuart Cracraft. http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html I do not see the name Dann Corbit in that site. Uri
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