Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 10:23:50 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 13:21:56, Amir Ban wrote: >On October 20, 1998 at 12:36:49, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>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 > >This depends: It's perfectly ok to terminate a game if you want to resign, and >you are free to resign whenever you want. If you mean that a program refused to >continue because it claimed a win, this should not be allowed at any score. Yes, I meant that. > >Amir
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