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Subject: Re: The Answers To Our Quiz......... :-)

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 17:58:49 06/12/05

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On June 12, 2005 at 14:39:28, Christopher Conkie wrote:

>Crafty understands no such thing when legality is switched off in Arena.
>
>In fact Crafty is most entertaining.
>
>There is the very serious side to this that your engine does not understand the
>rules of chess.
>
>It should not calculate on an illegal position.
>
>It is not the responsibility of the GUI to implement the rules.
>
>Maybe you will fix it someday but I am glad you have not. Now we can find ALL
>Crafty clones you see.
>
>[D]r4rk1/b7/8/8/8/8/B7/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
>
>Crafty-19.19:
>   8	00:00	     142.661	570.644	+0.04	Rc6+
>   8	00:00	     162.234	559.427	+0.04	Rc6+
>   9	00:01	     435.182	596.139	+0.08	Rf6+
>   9	00:01	     614.950	597.038	+0.20	Rf3+
>   9	00:01	     617.575	593.822	+0.20	Rf3+
>  10	00:02	   1.150.611	615.300	+0.06	Rf3+
>  10	00:03	   1.789.870	625.828	+0.06	Rf3+
>  11	00:05	   3.021.143	583.232	+0.16	Rf3+
>  11	00:08	   4.935.474	584.771	+0.16	Rf3+
>  12	00:12	   7.811.621	615.088	+0.10	Rf3+
>
>
>
>Christopher

There is one thing YOU don't understand through all those posts. Crafty
undarstands the position perfectly and refuses to play when set up. Just don't
use crappy GUIs if you ever want to test engines with such positions and try
drawing conclusions. Use pure engine console instead.

-Andrew-



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