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Re: GNUChess v3 and v4

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From: Michael Cummings
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 02:16
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In <1994Feb25.032650.15506@ohsu.edu> clw@ohsu.edu (Charles Waltemath) writes:

>i Anyone who has problems with a chess program because it cannot tolerate
>multiple "undo" moves shouldn't be playing competetive chess.  When have any
>ones human opponents tolerated such?

>That is certainly NO weakness in a chess program, in fact even allowing
>undo' is a weakness of the program!

Please.  Some of us aren't playing against the computer for a rating.
Multiple undos allows you to explore different move sequences.  It's a
study aid.

-- 
Michael Cummings  NX7E				cummings@u.washington.edu
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