Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:36:49 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 10:08:33, Amir Ban wrote: >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 Confusion even grows cause some programs themselves decide to terminate games, when auto232 is used. When some threshold score is reached, they refuse to send moves to the lpt (or whatever) device. No chance for the tester to continue. I learned this when I was puzzled about a prematurely (IMO) terminated game which was lost by Comet and asked for this at SSDF. In general such option may be useful but it should really be an option. Uli
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