Author: James T. Walker
Date: 18:46:58 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 14:02:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. >;-) That might work. If I were in charge I would simply remove all 3 programs from the SSDF list and not test them untill they fix the problem.
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