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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:49:59 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 15:26:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 28, 2004 at 15:19:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>This is a very responsible position to take, and I applaud it.

I decided to ask Leo to remove the versions of movei from his site after your
support and I hope that other programmers who have the same problem will do the
same until they fix the problem.

Uri



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