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Subject: Re: CM time control bug

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:23:38 02/20/01

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On February 20, 2001 at 16:21:29, Shep wrote:

>On February 19, 2001 at 21:23:12, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>You do understand that, without the patch, Chessmaster 8000's results at a
>>40/120 time control are not valid? If you have the European version of
>>Chessmaster, then you cannot possibly have gotten the patch yet. But if you have
>>the US version, I just wanted to make sure you knew about the moves/minutes time
>>control bug.
>
>I know, thanks.
>In fact, CM only used about half of its alloted time in each game, so its
>performance was definitely affected by the bug.
>However, since my other options were inacceptable (removing CM from the tourney
>or stopping the tourney until a patch for the European version is out), I
>decided to play on. But I will add a note about this to my tournament page.
>
>---
>Shep

Many thanks. That's fair. It's our fault, so we pay the price! Feel free,
though, to start up another tournament as soon as you get the patch. ;-)

jm



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