Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:01:15 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 09:49:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 09, 2003 at 09:25:55, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>I think the logic is quite clear, Jonny lost on purpose because he didn't feel >>Shredder should lose the WCCC due to a silly bug: >> >>"Apparently the Shredder interface contained a bug which allowed it to repeat >>postitions in a totally winning position. The program Jonny had seen this and >>claimed the draw (while displaying a 0.00 score). But as Johannes Zwanzger >later said on the Playchess.com server: "I did not want to draw the game in >>this way against Stefan, just because his program has a bug." So he had simply >>executed the move on the board, entered Shredder's reply and continued with >>the game." >> >>So basicly "Jonny" (the engine) saw Shredder had bugged out and instantly >>punished it by going for the repetition. > >Your version of the facts is wrong on several accounts: > >1) The bug was not in the Shredder interface or if it was, that wasn't >critical since it's the engine that repeated the position, not the interface. > >2) The engine Jonny had not claimed a draw (it didn't know about 3 fold >repetition), only the ChessBase GUI that Mr. Zwanzger was using informed >that the position was repeated 3 times. > >-- >GCP However, the ICCA / ICGA rules to _not_ differentiate between the GUI and the engine. The rules only address "the computer chess player". The decision was bogus.
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