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

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 09:33:06 07/30/05

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On July 30, 2005 at 11:47:18, Madhavan wrote:

>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


Even if you can now only offer silly draws after 5 moves it is an incredible
bug, that the _opponent_ needs to close that silly draw offers on _his_ time.
Most people play blitz or even bullet there,(you e.g. play only bullet I see...)
so 5 moves are just nothing and you are able to annoy your winning opponent
again.
Sometimes I think such GUIs are only made by non chess players...

What about the abort offers BTW?

Such a feature only leads to permanent cheating attempts.
(There are lots of cheaters anyway, if one searches through the lists,
one can find people with ridiculous national ratings having > 2300 in
bullet and blitz)

Guenther



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