Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 07:50:22 08/31/04
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On August 31, 2004 at 08:10:13, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 31, 2004 at 07:56:08, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >>On August 31, 2004 at 05:29:40, Günther Simon wrote: >> >>>On August 31, 2004 at 04:13:52, Jarkko Pesonen wrote: >>> >>>>The below was somehow stange. >>>>Is this draw by 50 moves as Arena is saying or >>>>does crafty 19.16 has bug with counting and letting the mate happen >>>>in the last moment. >>> >>>A lot of programs have that bug. Some authors say it does happen >>>such rarely that there is no need to fix it... >>> >>>Günther >> >> >> >>Only the few engines that generate only legal move lists can fix this >>at an acceptable cost. >> >>/Matthias > >I do not think that you are right. > >Even engine without legal move generator can have a function to detect mate and >if fifty=100 they can check if the position is checkmate before returning 0. > >Even if the function to check for checkmate is expensive it still called very >rarely in games. > >Uri Yes.
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