Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:18:42 08/23/99
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On August 23, 1999 at 07:24:00, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On August 22, 1999 at 18:08:33, blass uri wrote: > >>>Of course, the program CAN do it. But, it is NOT LEGAL. >> >>It is legal but it does not change the fact that it is a bug in cases it changes >>the result of the game. >>There is no low in chess that it is illegal to lose games. >> >> It is illegal to do it >>>and still win or draw the game >> >>I agree that losing on time in cases that it change the result of the game is a >>bug but you can do it sometimes and still draw the game. > >??????? >changing the result of a game is not a bug. it is the sense of playing ! This is an easy question to answer.. just ask programmers. I am one of 'those' and I would treat _my_ program overstepping a time control on a chess server as a bug, and fix it. It is a bug, because it causes a program to lose a game for no reason, when it was winning before the 'bug' caused the problem. Losing a game by playing a bad move is one thing... but losing a won game by simply not making a move before running out of time is a bug that can be fixed... However, I'll bet you won't find a single programmer that will say that "losing a won game by overstepping the time control is _not_ a bug"...
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