Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:02:46 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 11:06:02, Johan Hutting wrote: >I had already accepted Celes' loss and started observing some of the other games >until this position showed up: >3k4/3PnK2/3q3p/8/7p/8/8/8 w - - 0 55 >55.Kg7 Nf5+ 56.Kf7 Ne7 57.Kg7 Nf5+ 58.Kf7 >> NullMover has disconnected >> NullMover reconnected >58...Kxd7 59.Kg8 Qg3+ 60.Kf7 Qg7# White checkmated 0-1 >I'm sure you can figure out my opinion on this way of 'fixing' bugs... > :-) . But this is an interesting point to discuss IMHO before cct-5 starts - all the suggestions made so far wouldn't address this problem at all and maybe it is not possible. It is impossible to know _why_ a disconnection happens at ICC. It could have been simply coincidence .. Another theoretical example to not stick to your game too much. Let's say you have set up your engine with a subset of the 5 men tablebases only and your engine has no special knowledge on how to deal with this situation . Game reaches KRPKR which you have but you don't have the promotion sets . Your engine advances the pawn to seventh rank and you suddenly realize it will never promote .. - it would require good sportsmanship to not hit the disconnection button "by accident", wouldn't it? Regards, pete
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