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Subject: Re: Invitation!

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:27:03 02/08/00

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On February 07, 2000 at 10:21:10, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>>>OK Jouni, I have done the work and entered all the BS2830-positions with
>>>>reversed colors!
>>>
>>>Reversing colors doesn't necessarily avoid the cooking. I have seen positions
>>>cooked both ways.
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>
>>You are so negative. Why don't you just try it out?
>>
>>BTW I don't believe that many programmers do that, too much work. On how many
>>testsuites should they tune, which ones, and additionally also with reversed
>>colours? No, the number will be too high. Today you must add BS2830, BS2830rev,
>>BT2650, BT2650rev, GS2930, GS2930rev, LCTII, LCTIIrev, really senseless work to
>>add all these positions.
>
>Writing a reserved color routine takes a programmer 5-10 minutes.
>
>Have you seen the BT2630 EOC FUN database from my pages? Just store every
>position (+ the reserved one) in a tree and that's it.


Yes, you store it in a TREE. So when I choose analysis mode, the engine does not
have access to the tree, right?
(At least it should not)


>There is no way you are going to catch a programmer if he wants to cheat.
>Ed

Clear, but the questions are: Is it worth implementing? Does it hurt the normal
play?




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