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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