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Subject: Re: The Shredder-Jonny draw...

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 01:49:53 12/01/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 14:10:45, Slater Wold wrote:

>Is not so suspect...
>
>Johannes Zwanzger said that Shredder was clearly won, and that he did not want
>to 'steal the victory' from Shredder because of a stupid bug.  THAT is why he
>did not get a TD, and kept playing.  It was Johannes Zwanzger's choice, and no
>one else.
>
>Shredder won.  Period.

In 1995 world computer chess championship in paderborn
CSTal reached a won position against XXXX (i guess this was the name).

Both programs saw the mate.
XXXX stopped computing because it had the mate announcements.

There was a promotion.

Into queen would have been the mate line.

We said: what a nice place to mate the king. Let's play this to the
mate-position.

But due to a bug (in the interface, engine or whatever)
the program promoted into a knight.

CSTal lost this won game, when both programs had the mate-line.

If the opponent OPERATOR would have resigned when he saw the mate-lines
on both screens, it woulkd have been won for CSTal.

But due to the BUG it was won for XXXX.






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