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Subject: Re: Is SSDF aware?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:02:29 05/27/02

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On May 26, 2002 at 22:55:58, James T. Walker wrote:

>The new Chessbase GUI's (Fritz7/Shredder6/Hiarcs8) are claiming wins on time
>when using auto232.  They simply stop the game and claim a win and start a new
>game when the opponents time runs out on these GUI's clocks.  This is a new bug
>in these GUI's and I hope the SSDF is watching for this.  Programs like Shredder
>6 Classic and Century 4 are slow in passing moves via auto232 and they are most
>vulnerable to this new method of winning.  Of course a "work around" is to give
>their opponents an extra 1 or 2 seconds /move in the Fritz GUI so it will not
>stop the game and claim a win on time.  Don't count on Chessbase to be in a
>hurry to fix this problem.

Just count every false win claim as a loss in the SSDF and I think that they
would hurry up to fix it.
;-)



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