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Subject: Re: How many ways can a game terminate?

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 13:57:07 07/23/04

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On July 22, 2004 at 17:58:45, Uri Blass wrote:
>On July 22, 2004 at 16:49:41, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>
>I do not understand
>1)
>CTGameTermDrawFiftyMoveByBlack,
>CTGameTermDrawFiftyMoveByWhite
>
>Why seperate it.

The 50 move draw claim is made by the last player to move; this stops the clock.

>100 plies with no conversion is a draw if the final position is not checkmate
>and every side can claim it.
>
>same for draw material by white or third repetition.
>Every side can claim a draw by insufficient material of the opponent and I do
>not have seperate claims for white and black.

The claimant is always the last player to move.

>2)CTGameTermGenericDraw
>I do not understand all the generic.
>If the game was not adjudicated or finished by the normal rules it continues.
>
>I do not understand wgar is generic draw or generic win and you include case
>when one side resign.

Generic is used only when a result (W/L/D) is given but a Termination tag pair
value is needed.

>3)CTGameTermRuleBreachByBlack,
>
>I do not understand what it is.
>
>Uri



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