Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:48:50 06/16/05
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On June 16, 2005 at 10:38:18, Stan Arts wrote: <snipped> >Writing code to detect if a >setup< boardposition is legal or not, adds about >1 KB of code to a program, is an afternoon work for a good programmer, and >makes it exactly 0 Elo stronger or weaker. 1)I agree that it add 0 elo. 2)I think that detecting all illegal positions is a problem that no programmer even tried to solve. There are a lot of illegal positions like bishop that threats check from a8 or white pawn that threats check from d2 or having white pawns at a2 and a3 and b3 and I doubt if there is one program that knows to detect that they are illegal. Uri
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