Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:15:40 07/21/05
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On July 21, 2005 at 11:04:35, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >On July 21, 2005 at 10:52:52, Uri Blass wrote: > >>The fide rules are relevant only for real board and not for the board display. >>If you use the interface to decide about the time of a move then the interface >>rules are important here and not the fide rules(when I play in playchess I even >>do not need to claim a draw for repetition because the interface does it for me >>because the game is not played by the fide rules) > >Correct.. but maybe we would agree that both, display or real board, should be >played be FIDE rules. For example, when you basically have the advantage but the >opponent achieves a tricky 50 move draw, it is NOT correct when the program >"declares" a draw. It should leave the deceision to the players, if they want to >claim or not. Maybe your opponent hasn't counted the moves. Maybe you can still >win when he misses the draw claim. Why should the program have the power to >declare this drawn? It is like a wooden chessboard would suddenly speak and say >"Hey, 50 moves...!" > >This should be improved. 3rd repetion and 50 moves are only draws by claim, but >don't have to be claimed. The players should decide this. I can image that the >GUI INFORMS the user about a such a situation (as an option), but it cannot >claim things only a player has the right to claim. > >Programmers usually ignore this. :( > >Steve If we talk about improvements then I think that there is a delay of at least 0.01 seconds between printing the move and making the move and if in that time the program claims a draw the interface should not make the move but accept the draw. Uri
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