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Subject: Re: Another ChessMaster 8000 bug

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 06:12:16 12/04/00

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On December 03, 2000 at 17:55:34, James T. Walker wrote:

>After playing an automatic tournament between 2 personalities(CM vs CM/16M), the
>tournament results listed several games as "White lost on time"/"Black lost on
>time".  In all three cases the loser was the original ChessMaster.  In one of
>the games it was a draw by repetition at move 32 so I'm sure ChessMaster did not
>run out of time.  The others I was not watching but this seems strange since
>normally Chessmaster does not come close to losing on time.  So in my opinion
>you cannot trust the "Tournament results".
>
>Jim

More info on this problem.  Another 120 games played last night and 4 more games
were "lost on time".  All were with black.  A couple were because it was a 3
move repetition in which it was black's turn to move but apparently black never
moved.  This is a bug which needs to be addressed.  There were many 3 fold
repetitions in the tournament so I don't know why on rare occasions it fails to
make the last move which would cause the draw.
Jim



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