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Subject: Re: Is SSDF aware?

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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