Subject: Re: Strength of Silicon Castles chess engine
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:08:43 -0500
From: Sam Carmean <samc@witts.end>
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In article <tvidtqtk4muh57@corp.supernews.com>, Matthew Russotto
<russotto@wanda.pond.com> wrote:

> In article <9tb6ns$1e0o4$1@ID-91881.news.dfncis.de>,
> Amit Amely <a_amely@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >BTW - I am a lousy chess player. The genie was very close to beating me on
> >level 1, but it stuck me in a dead end position, the one in which it's not
> >"check", but any move I make I enter a "check". The game didn't end, and
> >there was nothing to be done but to quit. I think that it's a bug.
>
> I think that's the only time in chess that it's legal (and mandatory) to pass.

Stalemate.  By the rules of chess, the game is over, and it's a draw.
