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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 16:27:40 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 18:55:41, Michael Cummings wrote:

>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.
>

You are right....it cannot be considered a draw.
Thanks

>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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