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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