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Subject: Re: Amateur chess program released

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 20:06:03 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 22:04:07, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Now that I see how to use it, I like your program a lot.

Thanks :)

>I do see a lot of
>error messages about null pv's (for example):
[SNIP]

They shouldn't be there, I'm rewriting the Search(...) function those days to
eliminate such bugs, also to improve game tree size (trees were way too big)

>And also, I have a feature request to correct your ce for checkmates (at least
>the ce that you report).  From the PGN Standard by Steven J. Edwards:
>[SNIP]
>You seem to be using a long string of 9's (not without precedent -- e.g. Rebel
>and some others do the same thing):
>[SNIP]

not a string of 9's but the integer values +/- 99999999
in other words INF-1/-INF+1
I wanted a very large integer so no positional score could be greater
I'll consider modifying it according to your request.

>All in all, I like your engine very much.  Hmm... a second feature request
>(which you are free to ignore just like the first one):
>Create EPD analysis in standard EPD format.  It is so much more useful that way.

I'm not sure I understand this, perhaps you could give me an example of what you
 mean by that ?



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