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Subject: Re: EGTB explorer

Author: James Constance

Date: 04:29:47 02/14/06

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On February 14, 2006 at 05:26:27, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On February 14, 2006 at 04:58:12, James Constance wrote:
>
>>I think a quite useful feature would be if, on entering an egtb position, the
>>program could produce an annotated best line to the draw or mate.  Thus it would
>>mark only moves, perhaps award an exclamation mark or two where the chosen move
>>is quicker than alternatives, and insert the first move of alternatives as a
>>variatation (with a feature to expand the variation as the main line).  In this
>>way an EGTB could be a useful learning tool!?
>>
>>I wonder if there is anything similar already available?
>>
>>kind regards
>
>
>That would be yet another chess engine.
>
>Great tournament! Keep up the good work!
>
>Bernhard

I wouldn't have thought it would need to be as complicated as a chess engine, in
that the evaluations are already in the TB - just a case of comparing the
existing evals for moves in a position to produce the output.  Heck, it sounds
so simple, I'm tempted to program it myself ;-)



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