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Subject: Re: 99 Summer update. (Chess Tal - Hiarcs 2-0)

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 14:53:06 08/17/99

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On August 17, 1999 at 15:22:50, James T. Walker wrote:

> In the second game at move 78 CST-2 had a KQP vs KR. Easy win (I don't have the
>tablebase for that ending or it would have been).  Hiarcs had 43 seconds to make
>the time control (2 more moves) and CST-2 had more than 5 minutes(Forget
>exactly). Anyway, with only one move to go and CST-2 has 4:13 to make one move
>it runs out of time!?  So it should have been 1-1 but ended up 2-0 for Hiarcs.
>I hate this problem of CST-2 more than any other problem it has.  By the way,
>Hiarcs was running on a PII-333 and CST-2 was running on a K6-3-450.  It was
>interesting enough that I will try again (Maybe I'll get some more tablebases
>first).
>Jim Walker

I have never seen CSTal2 lose because it ran out of time.
it seems to be an autoplayer problem. I could guess in the 78 moves
cstal lost maybe 5 minutes on operator-time and this is excatly the
5 minutes hiarcs' clock complained about.
Whatever - you can (complain and) send the game to oxford-softworks. if chris
comes back from holiday, he can work on it. But - i don't think there is
a bug in the time control management.
thank you.



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