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Started by Peter Stein
Fri, 06 Jul 1990 17:25
GNUCHESS
Author: Peter Stein
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 17:25
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 17:25
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Howdy, Jeff, thanks for the makefile (just got it, have yet to try it). The ansi.sys driver apparently makes gnuchess useable. I say only "useable" because chess poses enough problems when you know where the pieces are, having to strain to identify what's on what square is an unacceptable distraction. I'd like to reiterate that I'm impressed with its strength at the fast time controls but something needs to be added (to all chess programs, not only gnuchess). At the fast time controls a significant amount of time is spent just entering the move ! I can move a piece and punch the clock a lot faster in OTB than enter a move on the PC. The program should spot the user some time just for move entry. *** Serious Bug *** The "easy off" command will lock up the program (no moves can be entered). What is "easy mode" for ? Does it cause "fish moves" to be inserted in an otherwise well played game ? Your 2200 fish-at-large, Pete Stein
Re: GNUCHESS
Author: Doug Ingraham
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 1990 04:49
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 1990 04:49
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In article <2934@tellab5.tellabs.com>, stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein) writes: > *** Serious Bug *** > The "easy off" command will lock up the program (no moves can be > entered). What is "easy mode" for ? Does it cause "fish moves" to > be inserted in an otherwise well played game ? > > Your 2200 fish-at-large, Pete Stein Not at all. In easy mode the program does not think on your time. If you turn post on you will see the expected line of play. If easy mode is off the computer will compute the next move based on what it thinks is your best reply. Often the machine is wrong and this computation is wasted. However, when correct it gets to answer much more quickly keeping its clock time to a minimum. I have always had problems with easy mode off under System V Unix. It works until it sees a forced mate at which time it would usually crash. So I have gotten into the habit of playing with it in so called easy mode. According to the Fidelity manual for my old Elite chess challanger the easy mode would reduce the rating by about 125 pts. I doubt that it really makes this much difference. I looked at the code to see if I could spot the problem but I was unable to discover anything. I hope this answers the question. -- Doug Ingraham (SysAdmin) Lofty Pursuits (Public Access for Rapid City SD USA) uunet!loft386!dpi
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