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Subject: Re: Invitation!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:56:46 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 04:27:03, Harald Faber wrote:

>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)

It depends if you have the EOC setting ON or OFF in the pulldown.

>>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?

It does not hurt normal play. I also do not believe any commercial
program cheats.

Ed



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