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Subject: Re: detecting and evaluating pins

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:33:21 02/23/04

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On February 23, 2004 at 13:40:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Doesn't matter to 'im.  Just another way to insult someone...





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