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Subject: Re: NO general bug that Junior 5 opp. don´t save games!!!

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 06:09:19 11/16/98

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On November 16, 1998 at 03:28:16, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:

>That the opponent don´t save games playing against Junior 5 with autoplayer
>is NO general bug.
>I play the SSDF games against Nimzo98, and Nimzo98 saves the games OK.
>So nobody is cheating.
>
>Venlig hilsen
>
>Hans Chr. Lykke


There was a lot of talk about the J5 autoplayer lately, and here's what I know
now:

- Sometimes the J5 autoplayer gets stuck, or, according to some, crashes. This
does not happen all the time, but on some systems only, and some even report it
depends on the engine (more problems with Crafty15.20 than with Junior5). So far
ChessBase are still trying to reproduce this. I managed to reproduce this
yesterday so I can confirm this.

  According to what I see, the engine stops playing, always at a point where it
is lost. The GUI is alive and you can adjudicate the game, or wait for the
timeout, and move to the next game. That's on my system and maybe on others the
GUI crashes or goes dead.

- The problem that save-game comes after new-game has so far only been reported
by Hannu, I think. I don't see this and neither do ChessBase. Even when the
autoplayer is stuck, when you snap out of it it will save-game and then
new-game, at least on my system.

  A possible explanation to what Hannu saw is this: If the J5-autoplayer is the
slave and is stuck and stops responding, the master will wait until the timeout,
then save the game, start a new game, and wait, ad infinitum.

  If anyone else sees this problem, please report it.

Amir





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