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Subject: Re: UCI protocol question

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 01:39:53 10/05/05

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On October 04, 2005 at 19:59:01, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 04, 2005 at 19:23:49, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2005 at 18:56:13, Lance Perkins wrote:
>>
>>>On October 04, 2005 at 18:51:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 04, 2005 at 18:37:43, Jon Dart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>You can simply detect when a new game starts and then do your stuff,
>>>>>
>>>>>No, I can't. Is the game won or lost?
>>>>
>>>>Can't you tell from your engines score?
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>One side may be way ahead, but it could still lose by running out of time.
>>
>>what has this to do with book-learning?
>
>You may want to tag a book position (e.g. the last book position played) with a
>count of how many wins, losses, and draws were experienced.  If you do not know
>the game outcome, then you cannot update your book data.
>
>So someone might say, "Look at the score."
>But it could be a loss on time.
>Without the engine being informed of the formal result, you can get incorrect
>results.

the contrary is true. If you rely on the game result you may consider an opening
as good although you were lost but the opponent lost on time.

Joachim



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