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Subject: Re: Bringer Evaluation - It Really Is Strong!

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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