Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Nov 14, 2019 09:20 PM UTC:
Sorry if I'm falling behind in this conversation. I'm working so messages are coming faster than I can consider or respond to them. So, for now, I'm only responding to H.G's latest message:
I understand what you are saying here, but I'm not sure how this addresses the issue. Perhaps the conversation has already moved beyond what I think we are talking about. Regarding the "move into stalemate" issue, H. G. said:
The pair of moves should be legal, and a first move that only occurs in illegal pairs should therefore be considered illegal itself.
I think this is what we were talking about. If it's not, please let me know. You describe assigning a stalemate score to a move pair, but I don't think this does anything about making a first move ILLEGAL if it leads to a stalemate when there is an alternate possibility. If we've already written this off as unworkable, great. If we're still talking about it, I don't think it is reasonably doable.
Regarding Sven's eninge - that would be awesome. I didn't remember this from the thread and going back now, it seems this file is no longer available.
Sorry if I'm falling behind in this conversation. I'm working so messages are coming faster than I can consider or respond to them. So, for now, I'm only responding to H.G's latest message:
I understand what you are saying here, but I'm not sure how this addresses the issue. Perhaps the conversation has already moved beyond what I think we are talking about. Regarding the "move into stalemate" issue, H. G. said:
I think this is what we were talking about. If it's not, please let me know. You describe assigning a stalemate score to a move pair, but I don't think this does anything about making a first move ILLEGAL if it leads to a stalemate when there is an alternate possibility. If we've already written this off as unworkable, great. If we're still talking about it, I don't think it is reasonably doable.
Regarding Sven's eninge - that would be awesome. I didn't remember this from the thread and going back now, it seems this file is no longer available.