Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 11:56:52 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 13:45:21, John Merlino wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 09:12:16, James T. Walker wrote: > >>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 > >What was the time control? > >jm I had this problem in a game between Crafty and Zchess on under Chessmaster too. I thought it was a misinterpratation of the rule, but perhaps not. Hmm I will have too look through my CM games to see if there are anymore cases of it. JW
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