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Subject: Re: Detecting three-fold repetition?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:42:35 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 17:25:09, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
[snip]
>The point is that TSCP loses games due to 3-rep draws.

Can't lose more than half a point through that defect.
;-)

>If 3-rep draws are not detected during search, what will keep it from losing
>these games?

You could make an icky hack that hardwires an eval of 0.00 to any position
already played twice.

Hash, if you must.  It will give TSCP a monster boost, anyway.  Probably bump it
up another category.

Suggestion:
TICP:
Tom's Intermediate Chess Program.

Then all the objections vanish.
;-)





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