Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 15:33:32 09/30/05
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>> >>The specific beef about Fritz 9 is that if Fritz 9 is a chess engine, it should >>behave like one. It should know the fundamental rules for a start. It's not too >>much to ask. > >I do not think that it is important for more than 99% of the customers. Make it 100ยท(X-1)/X % where X=all the customers....... > >> >>Besides that we use the positions to detect unsavoury theft of others work. >> >>The last thing that someone who copies an engine and passes it off as their own >>thinks about, is the board initialisation code. >> >>If an engine misunderstands the rules in exactly the same way as another engine, >>it is a very helpful pointer towards said engines origin, as thins is what is >>normally programmed in first i.e. how the pieces move and what they cannot do. >> >>For example.....should an engine calculate on a position when the position is >>already in check and it is the side to move? Should an engine consider taking a >>king? Should an engine take a king and then continue to play on as though >>nothing happened? All these concern only obsessed mad hunters of bugs or forum-flame-creators and not real Chess players or computer Chess testers or just Chess fans...... P.S: I don't "accuse" you of being such a hunter of creator because i know from other posts that you are in the other direction, but your todays posts point to this direction and that was a surprise.... > >I see no problem to buy an engine that does all of these things if it plays well >and I guess that the same is for most of the customers. > >Uri
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