Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 01:14:13 12/19/04
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On December 18, 2004 at 23:46:26, Olivier Deville wrote: >On December 18, 2004 at 18:53:47, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>On December 18, 2004 at 18:31:04, Günther Simon wrote: >> >>Hi Günther, >> >>>I don't understand how your message refers to my Arena bug report? >>>May be you did not understand my message? >>>I explain it again for you: Some engines simply lose on time because >>>they have bugs and it has nothing to do with the GUI, you must live with >>>this fact and deleting their games is wrong! >>>Actually I was talking about exactly the opposite bug in Arena. >>>There are engines which _must_ lose on time because they have a bug >>>at certain time controls, but with the help of a bug _in_ Arena >>>they don't, thus Arena hides the problem and makes it even worse. >>>(details in my previous post - BTW it's easy to reproduce...) >>> >>>Guenther >> >>OK, if you send me the information I will look too. >>You can used the support form on the older webpage or my mail or you can add it >>in our Arena Support Forum on the new webpage. >> >>Thanks for your efforts! >> >>But let me say the following: >>After 30.000 games here I saw perhaps 20 games "loosed on time" without to see >>the reason. Of course I try not all of the 250 available engines but around 70. >> >>So I speak from 0,06% because the other mistakes I saw are mistakes from the >>engine programmers and this mistakes are solved by the engine programmers. >> >>But let me look in your bug report to say more. >>This would be help to solved a problem and if you saw a problem, after all the >>knowledge you have, I am sure we have a bug. >> >>Thanks and good night! >>Time for my bed! >> >>Best >>Frank > >Hi Frank > >I can confirm the bug described by Guenther. > >Actually Arena helps a certain buggy engine to survive in heavy time trouble. A >lot of people could even see it in my live broadcasts. > >There is no point in helping an engine to cheat. > >You will get a bug report by mail soon. > >Olivier Hi Olivier, I have an other opinion about it. This isn't a bug, is a feature :-) And Arena have a nice option against it! This option isn't a bug too, its a feature :-) But I will look in the "bug" report. Let me look and I can say more! Merry Chrismas for you too ... Best Frank
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