Author: James T. Walker
Date: 08:05:34 12/05/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 14:56:52, Jason Williamson 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 > >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 I just finished 40 more games at G/25 and in the very last game white lost on time! White had 15:39 left when the 3rd move in a repetition occured. So the game was a draw but neither side actually claimed the draw and white sat there until its time ran out. This is a definite bug! Jim
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