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Subject: Re: Another ChessMaster 8000 bug

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:26:37 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
The time control was Game/5 minutes for 200 games.  This was 100 games each on
two different computers.  I am now running some Game/25 min matches.  In the
first 20 games this has not happened.
Jim



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