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Subject: Re: Programs that keep searching for mate... A challenge:

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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