Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:01:26 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 10:55:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 06, 2004 at 10:48:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 06, 2004 at 10:42:04, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>Fritz just forfeited on time, apparently because of a bug. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >> >>Any idea what happened? Overstepped the time while searching, hung up, or >>operator problem??? > >Program bug, possibly related to last move of the timecontrol, but >hard to say for sure right now. What's certain is that it hadn't moved >for 10 minutes when it just went through the clock. > >-- >GCP I assume they were sure the machine had not silently crashed and hung up? IE Crafty updates the display every 15 seconds to make it obvious when something hangs. In any case, this is not _that_ uncommon. Bugs still happen, both at the top and bottom... Unfortunate to lose because of one, but there are plenty of rounds to make up one bad loss...
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