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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:58:33 06/12/05

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On June 12, 2005 at 21:17:31, Madhavan wrote:

>On June 12, 2005 at 14:21:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 12, 2005 at 09:08:11, Christopher Conkie wrote:
>>
>>>And now for the answers to our quiz......
>>>
>>>[D]r4rk1/b7/8/8/8/8/B7/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
>>>
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>>Fantastic....yes, you are winning little engine....twice? Very funny :-))))
>>>
>>>Thank you Comet B68
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>1. +- (4.62): 1.Bxg8 Bc5 2.Rxa8 Rxa8 3.Bb3# Ra1+ 4.Bd1 Bd6 5.Ke2 Ra2+ 6.Kd3 Rh2
>>>7.Re1 Rh3+
>>>2. +- (2.31): 1.Rh5+ Rfe8+ 2.Kd2+ Bd4 3.Bxg8 Rxg8 4.Rxa8+ Rxa8 5.Rh3 Re8 6.Rd3
>>>Bc5 7.Rd5
>>>3. +- (2.22): 1.Kd2+ Rad8+ 2.Kc2+ Kg7 3.Be6 Be3 4.Rh3 Bf2 5.Rah1
>>>4. +- (1.80): 1.Rh6+ Rfe8+ 2.Kd2+ Kg7 3.Bd5 Bf2 4.Rh5 Rxa1 5.Rh3
>>>5. ± (0.92): 1.0-0-0+
>>>6. ± (0.78): 1.Kd1+ Rad8+ 2.Ke2+ Rfe8+
>>>
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>>But your friend thinks it is a draw.... :-))))
>>>
>>>Thank you Crafty 19.14
>>
>>
>>Whatever you are doing, you are doing wrong.  Crafty anything.anything
>>will instantly complain when you set the board to this position.  It says
>>"position is illegal, side not on move is in check."  If you use a gui that
>>ignores the error message from Crafty, there is little I can do to deal with
>>that...
>
>Crafty doesn't play "Shuffle Chess"
>It doesnt even starts moving the piece in its first move,all engine does.
>I guess you have programmed crafty not to accept other variation
>
>Shuffle chess would be nice

It will play it using xboard/winboard.  But it doesn't understand the castling
options...  It will play it in console mode but you get to set the pieces, not
it...



>
>>Who would want to fix such a thing even if their program did handle it wrong?
>>Should we also worry about positions with 16 white kings?  Chess is a game with
>>rules that tightly define "legality".



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