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Subject: Re: What is new in Arena 1.1 GUI and what now ...

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 07:25:44 12/18/04

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On December 18, 2004 at 06:21:35, WAEL  DEEB wrote:

>Hi,
>Believe or not,for 2 years and 4 months until now....I've played exactely 3278
>games at long time control 2 hours per game and only a very few problems has
>accured which is lost on time games from EXchess 4.01,some versions of Amy when
>the position is lost for it for example!

Well there are time losses, which are caused by bugs in a GUI, but OTH
there are also (more often) time losses by bugs in the chess programs.
Now there is also a third category unfortunately: time losses by chess
programs which are _hidden_ by bugs in a GUI!
I have some logs from Arena games, when actually the engine should
have lost on time(due to a bug in time management), but Arena somehow allowed
the engine to use more time to survive the cut.(claiming time losses was on)
Even worse it substracted the time which the engine had lost on time from the
next additional time, so it was well aware that something was wrong before...

Regards,
Guenther



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