Author: James T. Walker
Date: 10:07:28 03/07/06
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On March 07, 2006 at 10:27:58, Tord Romstad wrote: >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 Did I hit a nerve or are you just on the rag? I only asked a simple question. By the way, since I don't use that program I really don't have to watch it announce incorrect mates. Jim
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