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

Author: John Merlino

Date: 17:28:40 10/03/05

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On October 03, 2005 at 16:47:03, Chris Conkie wrote:

>On October 03, 2005 at 16:37:36, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On October 03, 2005 at 15:00:39, Chris Conkie wrote:
>>
>>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....
>
>Would an engine programmer be bothered to fix this John?
>
>[d] K2Q1Q2/1PQpppQ1/1NRpkp2/2QpppQ1/3Q1Q2/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Zappa 1.1:
>   1	00:00	          15	1	-M217	Nxd7
>   1	00:00	          16	1	+M0	Nxd7
>
> <snip>
>
>:) Mockery? No......I doubt it.
>
>Chris

I know I wouldn't be bothered. But that's why I asked if others would be....

jm



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