Author: Gerrit Reubold
Date: 01:55:26 01/11/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 18:53:23, Graham Laight wrote: >>>* Should recognise draw by repetition. When tinkering with it myself, we moved >>>back and forth through the same position several times, and it did not flag the >>>draw >> >>Someone else (Peter Berger) mentioned this some days ago, unfortunately, I am >>unable to reproduce it. Bringer claims a draw, both when playing it in its own >>GUI and as a winboard engine. How do I reproduce the bug? BTW, was Bringers >>score 0.00 while repeating the moves? > >Sorry - I didn't take note of that - I'll try again tomorrow. > >What I did was play until I was losing, then swapped sides, and tried to win. >Then we got to a position where both players were moving a piece back and forth >between 2 squares. After 3 reps, something should have happened - but it kept on >repeating, at 5 seconds per move. > >btw - I'm using the "current" version - not the new "beta" version. I'm using >the Bringer GUI (which is good, btw). The Bringer 1.5 didn't know about draw by rep! However, it is implemented in the Bringer 1.6 beta. >>>* I would like to see the squares flash when the computer moves. I don't like >>>having to look at the move list to see what the opponent has done. I wish more >>>programs would flash the squares being moved to/from like Hiarcs can >> >>I thought about small "recent-squares-indicators", instead of flashing the >>squares. Maybe a thin frame or a dot. If I have time, I will implement this for >>the next version. > >Excellent! It doesn't have to be flashing squares. CM2100 (yes - I admit to >being a happy owner of it!) animates its piece moves. Anything like this would >be good. Bringer moves the piece instantaneously - unless you're focused on the >right part of the board, you'd miss it. You can turn on "sliding pieces" in the Options - Settings dialog, maybe this helps. Greetings, Gerrit
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