Irreversible Moves
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Irreversible Moves can not be reversed. Thus, they are either captures or pawn moves [1]. Making those irreversible moves, resets the halfmove clock inside a position object to zero, concerning the fifty-move rule. Quiet and otherwise reversible moves, which lose the castling rights, that is rook- and king-moves from their initial square, including castling itself, are irreversible in the sense to reverse the same rights - since once a castling right is lost, it is lost forever, and reset the position index to determine repetition of positions. However, those "irreversible" moves don't reset, but increment the halfmove clock [2] [3].
See also
External Links
- Irreversible (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Irreversible process from Wikipedia
- Point of no return from Wikipedia
- Computerschach - Eine Wette, die ich gerne verloren habe by Horst Wandersleben (German) [4]
References
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- ↑ Half Move Clock Confusion by HumbleProgrammer, OpenChess Forum, January 10, 2013
- ↑ Computerschach - Eine Wette, die ich gerne verloren habe by Horst Wandersleben
- ↑ Dieter Bürßner found a game finished in a fifty-move rule draw, where castling occurred during the last fifty moves