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

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 19:24:38 06/13/05

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On June 13, 2005 at 19:22:12, Christopher Conkie wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Not the positions......just "Bruja does this, should it?" is what I meant.
>
>We just can't tell the positions. The ones provided for a little flavour, are
>somewhat simplistic (albeit effective) by comparison.
>
>I could post mate in one positions here that some engines just cannot see. It is
>not because the correct move is unconsidered either as some engines do find
>longer mates and just "down tools" after they have. Incredible but true.
>
>:-)
>
>Regards
>
>Christopher

Hi Chris

Bruja's position verification is mostly self-defence.  Some things like 11
knights or 2 kings of the same color will cause it to go belly up.  So I look
for those things.  But if my board structure will handle it and I can search it
without crashing, I don't worry about it even if the position is illegal.  I
figure the user has some wierd puzzle they want to analyze.

If Bruja accepts and searches a position it should produce a reasonable move
according to the normal axioms of chess.  If you see a case where it does not,
that would be of interest to me.  Inability to find a mate in 1 would be such a
case.

Best
Dan H.




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