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Subject: Re: Detecting three-fold repetition?

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 15:38:47 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 18:23:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On July 17, 2000 at 17:42:35, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>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.
>>;-)
>
>Happily John Stanback has saved the day with a small, unobtrusive function that
>counts the number of repetitions of the current position. Expect to find it in
>the next version of TSCP. :)
>
>-Tom


You are gonna have to rename it soon:  TNSCP.... :) (Tom's not so simple chess
program).



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