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Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Jan 1, 2018 08:19 PM EST:

I don't know how much of that ChessV is doing. E.g. does it know that KNK is a draw? Or KNNK?

No, sadly it does not.  The automatic draw by insufficient material is the one official chess rule not yet implemented.  It wouldn't be hard to implement the chess rule exactly, but I try not to tackle these things until I can find a general solution.  From that perspective, I think this is a hard problem.  How would it know if a King + WA vs. lone King in Chess w/ Different Armies should be an automatic draw?  (I assume it should.)  Or King + 2 WAs vs. King?  (This one I'm not even sure.)

Of course a GUI would have to know the exact rules, to correctly declare game end.

Yup, this is why I care (although not enough to hold off on releasing Makruk until I get around to it, which could be a while because in terms of things that interest me this is not high on the list.)


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