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Subject: Re: Horrific Gambit Tiger non-existing bug

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 15:26:13 01/19/01

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Peter,
In my computer Gambit Tiger plays 5...c5 inmediatly so I can't reproduce it
It's very strange because it's a book move

On January 19, 2001 at 18:20:30, Peter Stein wrote:

>When I have the Gambit Tiger 1.0 engine loaded and try to play a 2:10 (2 + 10
>sec increment) game the program will halt for certain move orders!! The
>following is 100% reproducible:
>
>white:me black:gambit tiger 1.0  time control: 2:10
>---------------------------------------------------
>1.    e4       Nf6
>2.    Nc3      d5
>3.    e5       Ne4
>4.    d4       Nc3
>5.    bc
>
>And at this point the program stops responding. No 5th move is made by Gambit
>Tiger and it simply runs out the clock! Regardless of the merit of the move
>sequence at no time should a program ever cease responding in this way.
>Obviously this is a very serious bug. Despite 2 emails pointing out this problem
>I've not heard a word from the folks at Rebel.
>
>Peter Stein



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