Author: Amir Ban
Date: 07:08:33 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 01:16:06, blass uri wrote: > >The question is if hiarcs6 claimed a draw with making the last move. >If it is not the case it is a bug in hiarcs6(hiarcs6 knew that it was a draw >otherwise there was no chance for fritz3 to do a capture only in the 101 ply. > >Uri In auto232 games there is no agreed result, so some confusion about it may occur. In the DOS autoplayer, practically the only way to end a game is to stop playing, and let the game be terminated by a timeout. This means that when one program resigns or claims a draw, the other program only sees a timeout and can only guess what happened. In this case, it's possible that Hiarcs printed on the screen "It's a draw !", but continued playing anyway. Another possibility is that both programs realized this was a draw, but the tester who looked at the final position did not know this and thought Fritz won. Amir
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