Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:21:18 09/30/99
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On September 30, 1999 at 20:11:47, Peter Kappler wrote: >On September 30, 1999 at 19:44:34, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On September 30, 1999 at 18:30:04, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >> >>>engine-engine match. If say black has no time left but white no material >>>winboard will still give 1-0 as result. Need to be carefull in automated >>>matches. >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Tec >> >>If I understand what you descibed, white won on time, the flag fell on black's >>clock. It sounds like it's working properly to me. >> >>Pete > > >His point is that you can't claim a win on time if you don't have mating >material. In this case, a draw is the correct result. > >--Peter That sounds true to me, I'm not really sure how Chess rules apply to this situation, because I want to think that even without any material that white can still win on time because black was not able to checkmate white before black's flag fell, all of my instinct (questionable) tells me that white won the game on time. I don't know where to look that up. Pete
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