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Subject: Re: change of opinion

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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