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Subject: Re: Nimzo, Crafty declining draws

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 20:16:34 08/18/00

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On August 18, 2000 at 18:12:34, Alexander Kure wrote:

>On August 18, 2000 at 18:03:07, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On August 18, 2000 at 17:49:25, Alexander Kure wrote:
>>
>>>On August 18, 2000 at 16:47:14, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>  I'm running Nimzo on a server and when the opponent offers
>>>>a draw Nimzo throws up a dialog box saying Nimzo wants to play on.
>>>>
>>>>Now if the program is unattended and set automatically, once the
>>>>draw offer is made Nimzo will throw up its dialog box then run out
>>>>of time.
>>>>
>>>>If I set up and use crafty it don't do this.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone have any idea what to add to Nimzo's config to prevent this.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>This is a well known error and i am sorry there is nothing you can do against
>>>it.
>>>
>>>Greetings
>>>Alex
>>
>>Sorry Alex, but maybe there is. I had the same problem, but I found when I set
>>the askhash=1 to 0, this never happened anymore.... this is with the WB version
>>though, not the Chessbase interface...
>
>
>As far as i know there is no connection between the "ask hash size" and the
>"asking for draw" dialog.
>You can simply test it by opening up a second connection as guest to icc and
>play a game against the nimzo winboard version and offering a draw to it.
>
>Greetings
>Alex


I actually just tried it, once with askhash=1, and once with askhash=0. With the
variable set to 0, Nimzo simple declined the draw, and kept playing...
With it set 1 , I got a pop up stating it wished to continue...

There must be some kind of a connection. The only thing different in the ini, as
the setting Alexander gave me...



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