Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:34:34 04/20/99
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On April 20, 1999 at 14:40:08, Will Singleton wrote:
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>On April 20, 1999 at 14:10:20, blass uri wrote:
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>>
>>Some programs knows that it is a draw but instead of stopping to play and claim
>>that it is a draw they start to do stupid mistakes and lose the game.
>>
>
>Yes, my program used to do that. Once past 50 (either actual or in the search),
>it would think all moves were equivalent, and would pick whatever happened to be
>first. Now I take into account potential loss of material.
>
>There is a similar bug some progs have, that when a repetition is found, it
>doesn't consider whose move it is. So, it might move into a repeat position and
>score it a draw, except that when the position occurred before it was the progs
>turn to move, and now it's going to lose its piece.
>
>Will
Yes! The 16 bits version of Tiger had that bug one time, and lost against a
human player in an important tournament game! But it was easy to fix once I
realized what it was...
Christophe
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