Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 08:32:13 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 11:22:03, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On December 09, 2003 at 11:19:39, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On December 09, 2003 at 10:18:44, K. Burcham wrote: >> >>> >>>the program Jonny did not know that a 3 fold repetition is a draw. >>> >>>GCP >>> >>>Oh I see. this changes my opinion. >>>so we can say that shredder nor jonny could see the draw. >>>for what ever reason, code, bug, neither program could see draw, maybe in eval >>>but neither program said "draw by repetition". maybe ok to play on. not sure. >>> >>>kburcham >> >>This is getting technical, more so than it has to be, I will try and explain. >> >>Chessabase, UCI and WB engines are different concerning a some minor details. >> >>In WB the engine has to do everything by itself, read the book, claim the draw >>etc. >> >>In UCI there is no way the engine can claim a draw, there is no protocol command >>available for the engine to do this. >> >>This is all documented and normal behavior, there is nothing here indicating >>Jonny didn't behave according to protocol or was lacking in some way. > >Jonny is not a UCI engine. It is a winboard engine and used the winboard adapter >from Chessbase. Okay, then I guess he was lucky that it played as a UCI engine which fixed a couple of holes. Had he been playing as a winboard engine there would have been no argument from me. -S. >>But all that tech stuff aside on who knew what and why, the crucial point >>remains that Jonny managed to bring about a draw on the board and the operator >>was allowed to overrule it only to face certain defeat. > >Greetings, >Steffen.
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