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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 01:20:09 12/14/99

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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 have won games on time where the opponent in an obviously superior position
opted for a 3-rep draw.

But unless a draw is called, the position can repeat 300 times and if one side
runs out of time the other still wins.

James



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