Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 08:39:32 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 11:32:13, Sune Fischer wrote: >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. He did _not_ play as a UCI engine but as a Winboard engine using the old winboard adapter which is no longer supported from chessbase for the Fritz GUI! Greetings, Steffen.
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