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Subject: Re: Winboard and "/mg xx" start parameter

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:41:23 10/14/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 05:56:32, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Why do I get a lot of these games??

there is an unfortunate timing hole that is not easy to fix.  Either program
can resign, and if they (for some reason) do it more than once, winboard will
see the first resign, start anew game, see the second resign, and assume that
is really intentional.

I'll look at a patch for winboard to ignore resign/draw/result commands for
the first couple of moves, to prevent this.  If I can figure out how to fix
it, I'll send the fix to tim...




>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "PC410USKI"]
>[Date "1999.10.14"]
>[Round "7"]
>[White "Crafty"]
>[Black "Lg2000a"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[TimeControl "60/180"]
>
>1. e4
>{Black resigns} 1-0
>
>thanks Jouni



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