Author: James T. Walker
Date: 19:34:29 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 18:16:45, David Dahlem wrote: > >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 Well I played 200 games at G/5 and had 7 games "Lost on time". One or two may have been correct sine the went past 150 moves and I was not watching. I have now played 40 games at G/25 and had no "Lost on time" games yet. Jim
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