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Subject: Re: CSTal help........Easter Tourney Game 1

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 15:55:41 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 07:53:31, Chessfun wrote:

>On March 08, 2000 at 07:45:03, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On March 08, 2000 at 07:23:27, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>  In game 1 of my Easter tourney
>>>CStal runs itself out of time.
>>
>>the "bug" is known.
>>chris wanted to make cstal very human-like,
>>so it plays incorrect sacs and also oversteps time-controls.
>>should not happen in 40/120. but in blitz-controls it happens...
>>if you would play in tournament-time-control, the problem would
>>IMO not occur. i have played in many tournament, and also
>>at home, and at home it uses it's own clock, on championships
>>i normally give myself an extra time between 3-5 minutes for
>>operating.
>>
>>
>>>It counts down from 60 secs and
>>>just ignores the countdown and moves
>>>20 secs after it. This was after 59 moves,
>>>I played the game out but am puzzled.
>>
>>:-))
>>
>>so one point for chessmaster !
>>consider: only the result counts.
>>
>
>No, I don't see it that way.
>Since it's time is buggy I see it as drawn
>otherwise it will likely lose all on time.

You must see it that way, there are rules to chess games and if CSTal is
incapable of playing chess that way then it will always lose, and so it should.

If two humans were playing, do you think an opponent would offer a draw if the
other guy always made his time run out, I do not think so.

If you want to consider the game a draw, then I suggest you scrap the whole
series of matches with Tal playing at that time control, cause I can tell you
what the results would be, endless draws using you rules.

That said, just another reason I would never consider buying CSTal




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