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@ber Do you remember playing my chess engine when it crashed early in the game? I found the error. It was an obscure condition for the error in my chess library (not in the engine) to occur but I fixed it anyway. If you want to play it again, it should work now without crashing ;P

Basically there was an infinite loop between CanCastle and the code to validate checkmate... I hadn't expected that.

Shadow Wizard

Cool, always good to fix bugs :D

ProgramFOX

Yeah I'm glad I finally found it, lol

berserk

@ProgramFOX sure

ProgramFOX

@berserk okay, then do the following (like last time): open the game creation dialog and prepare a 40+17 game. Don't click a color yet. When you did that, mention it here. When I say "OK", click the black king on the game creation dialog.

(note that it's not stronger than last time, just more stable)

berserk

7:12 AM

ok

ProgramFOX

let me know when you're ready

berserk

tell me when

ProgramFOX

prepare the game, but do NOT click a color yet

berserk

yep

ProgramFOX

then tell me that you did that

berserk

7:13 AM

done

hang on...

hangs

OK now

chokes

soul coming out

ProgramFOX

come on click it

black king

berserk

7:14 AM

done

ProgramFOX

yep it's my bot

berserk

judging from moves, guess it is on

lol

ProgramFOX

yeah haha

my bot is a piece up? lol

uhm why does it sacrifice its queen? lmao

berserk

lol

ProgramFOX

by the way you keep missing that my bot's rook on A1 is free to take

berserk

7:19 AM

no

I saw that

was interested in cM

ProgramFOX

oh

berserk

I even ignored queen once lol

ProgramFOX

yeah but there was no immediate cM opportunity, so taking the rook would be quite good

the computer analysis graph shows some spikes for my bot

too bad that it couldn't exploit its advantage

berserk

lol the bot don't have AI, I am not playing seriously:P

ProgramFOX

indeed, it's more like AU

Artificial Unintelligence

berserk

7:21 AM

lol

._.

ProgramFOX

uh

berserk

zzz

ProgramFOX

lol the bot would do a much better job at antichess

berserk

no choice now lol

Shadow Wizard

So the bot won? ;)

ProgramFOX

7:27 AM

no :(

Shadow Wizard

petting @Pro's bot on the shoulder

ProgramFOX

I can just hope that @ber blunders so the bot has a mate-in-one... if everything works, it should see that.

berserk

yeah, maybe in next couple of centuries :P

ProgramFOX

@ber After this game, I restart the bot and give it the command to search a bit more in-depth... then it should make slightly less blunders.

berserk

ok

ProgramFOX

7:34 AM

25 mins ago, by ProgramFOX

@berserk okay, then do the following (like last time): open the game creation dialog and prepare a 40+17 game. Don't click a color yet. When you did that, mention it here. When I say "OK", click the black king on the game creation dialog.

do this again

berserk

done

tell me when to click

ProgramFOX

now

berserk

done

yep, definitely :P

ProgramFOX

yep

berserk

...

ProgramFOX

7:39 AM

eh

I hoped that it would see the king-rook fork

berserk

lets try later :P

ProgramFOX

ok :P

berserk

how about put it in atomic? who knows this combo may work there

ProgramFOX

hah with these moves, it's dead in three moves

berserk

lol

ProgramFOX

7:45 AM

so bad that it didn't see the king-rook fork

I thought that it would grab the free pawn

and then it would see the free rook

but... nope

berserk

yeah, teach that bot a good lesson :P

need smiting stick? :P

Shadow Wizard

bot stick

ProgramFOX

8:05 AM

heh

Shadow Wizard

huh

rene

8:58 AM

in SO Close Vote Reviewers on Stack Overflow Chat, 17 secs ago, by rene

@PetterFriberg In some case that gives my an ice cream

@ShadowWizard ^

Shadow Wizard

lol

Want the ice cream in there, or here? ;)

rene

Just keep it here :)

Otherwise all of them lick it

Shadow Wizard

Fitting the Close Vote room ^

voting to close ice cream

rene

LOL

Shadow Wizard

:D

Shadow Wizard

12:49 PM

@rene the OP here got account on SO for 5 months, good chance he's question banned there.

Clemens Himmer

1:09 PM

oi

i'm pingable

i'm just not often online in the SE den

@Sha

Shadow Wizard

@ClemensHimmer too boring? D:

@Clem you start the new job next week, right?

DroidDev

5:55 PM

oyes @Sha

slaps @ber

sends porn to @Yve

plucks @rene since he's a flower

rene

you can only do that once ...

berserk

6:39 PM

@DroidDev Oi!

Shadow Wizard

giving @rene water so that he'll regenerate his petals

berserk

kicks incoming @Sha in his butt

Shadow Wizard

stealing the porn from @Yve

taking kick from @ber, then kicking back in the nuts

:D

throwing oyes on @Dro

berserk

D:

Shadow Wizard

pushing @ber into @Clem's car

wondering where @Joe is

@Joe wasn't pinged for a long time

maybe @Joe missed the pings

@MAR isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@TIPS isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@Pra isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@Bart isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@Sil isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@mav isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

@Frank isn't pingable anymore, but @Joe is

berserk

6:58 PM

@Sha Have you played Zanzarah - The Hidden Portal?

Shadow Wizard

hey you broke it! D:

@berserk nope, never heard of it actually... :( /cc @Joe

berserk

oh

Shadow Wizard

whoops

I was wrong

berserk

I recommend it. Try someday maybe.

Shadow Wizard

Jun 18 at 14:27, by Shadow Wizard

ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal

ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal is an action-adventure video game by the German company Funatics Development, released in 2002 by the publisher THQ. An expansion was in development in 2002, but was later cancelled. The game involves travels and combats in a magical world loosely associated with our own world. == Plot == === Setting === ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal features a detailed fantasy world called ZanZarah. The Shadow Realm is a place of great evil in the depths of ZanZarah, even deeper than the lava caves of the dwarves. There are a few entrances into it: one is in the pixie-hunter L...

berserk

7:00 PM

?

Shadow Wizard

Heard about it, but still didn't play :D

Maybe @Joe did?

berserk

oh

Shadow Wizard

@Joe did you play ZanZarah?

@Joe how many pings you got?

@Joe will you ping revenge me?

ProgramFOX

There's a Grandmaster doing a simul on lichess! I'm playing him right now: en.lichess.org/50WrzvTgg4sV

berserk

cool

beat the shadow out of him

oh wait.. nvm

Shadow Wizard

7:08 PM

ouch

ProgramFOX

I'm afraid he's going to run out of time

he did...

berserk

wow you beat a GM

ProgramFOX

facing 11 players at the same time with 5+3 time control is probably a bit optimistic

berserk

who cares, you won to a GM :P

Shadow Wizard

@Pro did you make any move there?

rene

7:09 PM

@ShadowWizard blub blub blub

ProgramFOX

@ShadowWizard Yeah.

berserk

@ShadowWizard lol ofc he did

ProgramFOX

wow he ran out of time in 9 of the games

Shadow Wizard

@berserk weird, I see the initial board, can't spot list of moves. /cc @Pro

ProgramFOX

screenshot?

Shadow Wizard

7:11 PM

@ProgramFOX well, he's probably not used to play online

berserk

maybe he slept in-between

I also did that tons of times...

ProgramFOX

@ShadowWizard If he had given himself more time, he would have crushed us. But he plays 11 games at the same time, with 5+3 as time control. That's not a lot.

Shadow Wizard