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Subject: Re: General Tips and Tricks for debugging a search.

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 12:47:57 06/16/05

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On June 16, 2005 at 15:04:08, Christopher Conkie wrote:

>True, but if you make a chess engine it should at the very least know the rules
>of chess (on it's own) or it is not, repeat not, a "chess" engine.
>
>No rules = anything goes.
>
>Christopher

True, but a legal move in a legal position cannot result in a illegal position.
That's a fact. That's why you only have to check for legallity when the user
sets up a new position.
This happens not very often. So no performance is lost.

regards
Andy



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