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Subject: Re: test position for your chess program

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 08:48:07 01/30/06

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On January 30, 2006 at 11:28:33, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>On January 30, 2006 at 10:12:29, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>On January 30, 2006 at 08:27:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>[D]8/8/pppppppK/NBBRQNRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/8 w - -
>>>
>>>Engine: Rybka 1.01 Beta 13b 32-bit (512 MB)
>>>by Vasik Rajlich
>>>  3.00	 2:28 	+2.46 	1.dxe4 (10.542.472)
>>>  4.00	 3:11 	+2.46 	1.dxe4 (13.595.552)
>>>
>>>This is under the shredder gui.
>>>
>>>When I try rybka under the fritz gui and do not wait for analysis and
>>>quit Fritz after few seconds with no result then rybka continue to work after
>>>quitting fritz based on task manafer and the only way to stop her is to wait or
>>>to stop the process of rybka.
>>>
>>>I think that it is not nice behaviour of rybka.
>>>I think that a program should quit when it get the quit command during analysis
>>>in a short time.
>>>
>>>Waiting of 0.1 seconds on fast hardware is ok but not waiting of more time.
>>>
>>>My guess is that it takes rybka long time to respond to the quit command.
>>>If I quit rybka under shredder then rybka does not continue to work and I guess
>>>that shredder simply does not wait for rybka to stop but simply kill her.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>  Programs are designed to evaluate all "legal" positions on the Board.
>>Not Fantasy ones like you propose here.
>
>So you suggest that when a program is given an "illegal" position to evaluate,
>it should just crash?
No not crash. Why Post illegal positions knowing a Program is designed to
evaluate only legal positions? Just curious..



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