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Subject: A reason not to release new movei in the next month

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:19:13 06/28/04


Movei can crash if you give it illegal FEN.

I cannot change movei in a short time to detect every illegal FEN that may make
it crash.

FEN that may make it to crash is not only FEN when one side has 2 kings or no
king but also FEN when the king is attacked from 3 directions(movei assume that
the king can be attacked from at most 2 directions and if the king is attacked
from 3 directions it may crash).

I do not think that I can fix all the problems in a short time and I certainly
do not plan to work on fixing the problem before WCCC.

I also consider to ask Leo to remove public versions of movei from his site
because they can crash if you give them illegal FEN or game that has more than
1000 plies and a virus may use it to attack the computer of people who use
movei.

Uri



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