Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 07:27:58 03/07/06
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On March 07, 2006 at 07:52:20, James T. Walker wrote: >On March 07, 2006 at 06:03:10, Bernhard Bauer wrote: > >>Amasing. Specially the mate in 11 within 2 sec :-) >>regards >>Bernhard > >Yes! :-) Wouldn't that be considered a bug? Announcing a mate in 11 when there >is none. In the author's opinion, it's not a bug. Glaurung is a chess playing program, and not a mate solver. As long as the program doesn't announce a mate when there is no mate, I'm happy. I'm surprised that so many people care about this, and even more surprised that those who care use a normal chess playing program instead of a mate solver like Chest. Adjusting mate scores in the hash table in order to ensure that all mate counts are correct would be trivial, but it would add more clutter to my already too messy program. Perhaps I'll do it some day, but don't hold your breath. If you really can't stand watching occasional incorrect mate counts, just grab the source code and do the necessary changes yourself. Tord
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