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Subject: Re: TSCP question

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 16:08:03 02/02/00

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On February 02, 2000 at 18:37:36, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On February 02, 2000 at 16:56:07, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On February 02, 2000 at 15:24:47, Michel van der List wrote:
>>
>>>I've been looking at TSCP, and it would appear that the fifty move counter
>>>does not get reset when the castling rights change. Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>BTW Tom and Marcel (for his MSCP) thanks for your contributions with the
>>>simple chess programs. They are pretty handy as reference materials when
>>>starting from scratch.
>>>
>>>Michel
>>
>>I don't think TSCP even knows about a 3 move repitition draw, so my guess is
>>that it won't bother counting to 50 at any point for you.
>>
>>Pete
>
>Detecting 3 fold repeititon is infinitely harder than seeing if some integer is
>50.
>
>-Tom

I wasn't thinking about it properly, I wasn't thinking about it being the same
position 3 times (all I thought of was the bigger number, oops)

Pete



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