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Subject: Re: Mace In One........

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:37:36 10/03/05

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On October 03, 2005 at 15:00:39, Chris Conkie wrote:

>[d] K7/1P6/2P5/3PQ1Q1/3QpppQ/4pkp1/3QpppQ/4Q1Q1 w - - 0 1
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>Looking at chess engines and what information they give out is very interesting.
>
>These kinds of position are extremely useful.
>
>Chris

Although I am amused (and even occasionally intrigued) by your efforts, I'm
still not sure what you hope to accomplish by this, other than mocking the
efforts of engine writers who have created some fantastic and praiseworthy
programs.

Do you honestly think that a programmer will spend time trying to fix the kinds
of bugs that you are reporting, that come from situations that are either 100%
unlikely to happen in a real game or are illegal, rather than fix/improve his
engine's ability to simply "play chess"?

Your comment "These kinds of position are extremely useful" seems to only be
true for you.

jm

p.s. If an engine writer has actually bothered to fix any of these kinds of
issues that Chris has reported, please feel free to reply. I would, once again,
be intrigued....



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