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Subject: Re: GUI bug against Zappa beta tester on Playchess

Author: Madhavan

Date: 08:47:18 07/30/05

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On July 30, 2005 at 10:00:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 30, 2005 at 07:07:48, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On July 29, 2005 at 20:01:32, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>>
>>>Some words to the great Alejandro Mendez from playchess. !!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Alejandro Mendez(son-of-father), from Argentina, have won to Zappa 2.0b. in a
>>>10+10 time control game.
>>>
>>>Son-Of-Father, a human being, have had until 2737 elo into engines room
>>>fromplaychess playing and beating many engines 100% as a human being.
>>>
>>>Now the tourn for a k.o. have been to Zappa.
>>>
>>
>>This is worse than yellow press.
>>The game was played by a beta tester of Zappa (not by Anthony, not by Arturo)
>>and it was played at the crappy Playchess server with a buggy GUI (the only
>>one allowed there). The buggy GUI cannot play on after move 256.
>
>
>I am not sure if the chessbase interface cannot play on or if it sends the
>engine wrong information that cause it to lose on time.
>
>I tested Movei under the chessbase interface not in playchess and one of the
>problem is that after move 256 the interface send fen and not a move.
>It also seems to me that the chessbase interface does not send correct time to
>the engine.
>
>and in 10+10 assumes that the time remaining is always 610 seconds regardless to
>the time on the clock.
>
>programs probably can play if they do not believe the time that the interface
>tell them but they should also know to ignore the position that they
>get(otherwise they can do repetition in a better position for no reason).

I checked out the playchess site,once you offer a draw,you can't claim to offer
more draws unless 5 moves are made after the 1st claim,the bug has been fixed.

>Uri



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