Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:43:15 08/27/05
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On August 28, 2005 at 01:37:59, David Mitchell wrote: >On August 28, 2005 at 00:49:19, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>Fritz gui for some reason do not understand movei's mate score and when movei >>writes >>32764 it translates it to mate in 1 and when it writes 32766 it translate it to >>mate in 0. >> >>It has no problem to understand movei's score when it writes mate against >>itself. >> >>I wonder if there is some bug in the chessbase gui that translate socre of >>winboard engines to mate score wrong. >> >>Uri > >Uri, >Chessbase gui appears to be using a signed integer for the value, and it has >reached it's maximum value, and then starts over again. > >Dave I think that 32767 is the maximal value of signed 16 bit integer so I do not understand why it has problems to translate 32754 to mate in 1. 32767 is mate position and the score for every position that is not mate should be the distance in plies from mates. 32766 is mate in 1 because it is distance 1 from mate position but for some reason chessbase gui translate it mate in 0 when it translates correctly 32765 to mate in 1 against the side to move that is distance of 2 plies from mate position. Uri
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