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Subject: Re: Amateur chess program released

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:24:15 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 23:06:03, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>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.

That would be nice.  It's a bit annoying to modify the output for every program
that comes along if I want to use it.

>>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 ?
Consider crafty, which has EPD code written by Steven J. Edwards himself...
Input:
8/pp1p1p2/1p1P1P2/k7/8/1p4p1/1P4PP/2K5 w -
-4q1kr/p6p/1prQPppB/4n3/4P3/2P5/PP2B2P/R5K1 w - -

Output:
8/pp1p1p2/1p1P1P2/k7/8/1p4p1/1P4PP/2K5 w - - acd 22; acn 268620232; acs 1501; ce
257; pv h4 b5 h5 Ka4 h6 a5 h7 b4 h8=N b6 Kd2 Kb5 Nxf7 Kc5 Ke3 a4 Ne5 Kxd6 Kf4 a3
f7 Ke7 Kxg3 axb2;
4q1kr/p6p/1prQPppB/4n3/4P3/2P5/PP2B2P/R5K1 w - - acd 15; acn 231452379; acs
1501; ce -22; pv Qd5 Rxe6 Bd1 Kf7 Bb3 Qc6 Qxc6;

Ref:
http://www.very-best.de/pgn-spec.htm#16.

See section 16.2



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