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Subject: Re: Chesspartner on FICS: 3 time rep bug

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 12:54:15 12/13/99

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On December 13, 1999 at 15:47:52, Lex Loep wrote:

>On December 13, 1999 at 15:21:47, James B. Shearer wrote:
>
>>       I won two games on time vrs Chesspartner on FICS yesterday because of
>>some sort of bug in the three time rep code.  In both cases, in positions which
>>either were or were about to be three time reps, Chesspartner simply stopped
>>moving and eventually lost on time.
>>       I believe you have to request a three time rep draw, it is not
>>automatically granted by the server.
>>                          James B. Shearer
>
>Thanks for pointing this out to me, did you use the fever account ? I looked
>at my own logs and there are two games marked as draw, while in the fevers
>history they are marked as win for fever ?
>
>I thought the server did the three fold repetition, I remember to have
>seen it sometimes.
>
>Lex

I am pretty sure the server does not call the draw for the 3-rep.

Will




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