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Subject: Re: Another ChessMaster 8000 bug

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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