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

Author: Hannu Wegner

Date: 10:10:02 11/16/98

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On November 16, 1998 at 09:09:19, Amir Ban wrote:

>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


Hi Amir,
It is good to hear that you have been able reproduce one of the
autoplayer-bug's. This is the first step to get a bugfix:-). BTW it is not
possible to use Junior as a slave agaimst other opponents. Because of this it is
for example difficult to get Junior 5 starting to play against Hiarcs 6 (dos). I
did manage this be stopping the first game by "bewerten" (in german). After this
Junior start the first game with black!?

Do you think that there will be a patchfile?

Best greetings.
Hannu Wegner




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