Author: David Dahlem
Date: 15:16:45 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 17:26:37, James T. Walker wrote: >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 I have been having the same problems with CM 8000. GM personalities, custom personalities, and xboard engines all will at times just stop moving and the clock runs out. I do not see a pattern so don't know if it's a bug or not. But I shut down the program, reboot windows, and restart the program. It still seems to happen in about 10% of the games while i was observing. Time control G/5 and G/10. Dave
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