Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 18:36:42 12/25/98
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On December 25, 1998 at 16:12:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 25, 1998 at 15:43:36, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On December 25, 1998 at 06:30:11, Thom Perry wrote: >[snip] >>>What do the large ce values in your post mean? In my chess program >>>(MCP8), the maximum ce value for a position would be the integer >>>9999 which corresponds to +99.99 which is mate. A value of 9996 would be >>>+99.96 which is mate-in-4 for the side to move. A value of -0143 would >>>mean -1.43 which would be a small advantage for the other side. >>You are using Rebel. It has a non-standard way of describing a checkmate. I >>sent a bug report to report the defect >Oops. I should have read more carefully. You should also send a defect report >to MCP as they have the same bug as Rebel does. If your program does not follow >the standard, then the output is just plain wrong. Any 'standard' which is unreadable for humans is just plain wrong IMO. While fen notation makes sense so you can copy/paste a position, why not just post '+mate_12','-mate_5' as evaluation? Your numbers are made for computers, they can be anything, why should I understand them? =Regards= Andrew
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