H.G.Muller wrote:Weird. I know we had such a problem before, but that was solved long ago. I just tried 10 moves / 30 sec, (to have more critical moves) and then the times are all there (see below). If the time is 0, I do not save it, however. Could what you see be caused by the engines happened to move very fast on the last move, because they both had lousy timemanagement?
[Event "Computer Chess Game"]
[Site "CHESS_LAPTOP"]
[Date "2009.11.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Fairy-Max 4.8L"]
[Black "Fairy-Max 4.8L"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "10/30"]
[Annotator "1. +0.27 1... +0.17"]
1. Nf3 {+0.27/7 4} c5 {+0.17/7 4} 2. d4 {+0.12/6 2.0} f5 {+0.03/6 2.2} 3.
c3 {+0.26/6 1.9} Na6 {-0.01/6 1.1} 4. Bf4 {+0.07/6 2.2} Nf6 {+0.06/6 1.7}
5. Nbd2 {+0.02/6 1.7} Nh5 {+0.31/7 1.1} 6. Bg3 {-0.42/7 1.0} Nxg3
{+0.36/7 4} 7. hxg3 {-0.29/7 2.3} g6 {+0.45/7 8} 8. e3 {-0.37/6 3} b6
{+0.37/5 1.3} 9. Bc4 {-0.09/6 0.9} cxd4 {+0.17/5 0.6} 10. Ne5 {+0.86/6} e6
{-0.84/7} 11. Nxg6 {+0.61/8 6} Rg8 {-0.82/8 3} 12. Nxf8 {+0.82/7 1.5} dxe3
{-0.94/8 4} 13. Nxh7 {+0.88/7 2.0} exd2+ {-1.03/8 4} 14. Qxd2 {+0.93/7 2.5}
d5 {-1.02/7 3} 15. Bb5+ {+1.05/6 1.9} Ke7 {-1.13/7 5} 16. Ng5 {+0.99/7 4}
Rh8 {-0.89/7 1.3} 17. O-O-O {+1.04/7 2.4} Qg8 {-0.79/6 1.5} 18. Rxh8
{+1.43/8 1.5} Qxh8 {-1.47/8 0.8} 19. Nxe6 {+1.47/8 2.6} Bxe6 {-1.54/8 1.3}
20. Qg5+ {+1.66/8} Qf6 {-1.70/9} 21. Qxf6+ {+1.70/10 1.6} Kxf6
{-1.55/10 13} 22. Bxa6 {+1.56/10 28} Rh8 {-1.66/9 17} 23. Kc2 {+1.60/6 0.7}
Rh2 {-1.60/6 0.4} 24. Rg1 {+1.63/7 1.0} Kg5 {-1.64/6 0.5} 25. a3
{+1.70/7 1.3} f4 {-1.59/7 0.7} 26. gxf4+ {+1.77/8 1.2} Kxf4 {-1.70/7 0.4}
27. a4 {+1.76/7 0.8} Bf5+ {-1.67/6 0.4} 28. Bd3 {+1.66/8 1.1} Be4
{-1.52/7 0.5} 29. Bxe4 {+1.56/9 1.5} dxe4 {-1.54/8 0.6} 30. Kd2 {+1.56/9}
a6 {-1.55/8} 31. b3 {+1.63/9 1.5} b5 {-1.56/10 2.5} 32. Ke2 {+1.61/10 1.9}
bxa4 {-1.63/10 1.8} 33. g3+ {+1.61/11 2.4} Kg4 {-1.54/11 1.9} 34. bxa4
{+1.50/11 2.7} Rh5 {-1.53/10 1.3} 35. c4 {+1.53/10 1.4} Ra5 {-1.52/10 2.0}
36. Ra1 {+1.52/10 1.3} Rc5 {-1.54/11 1.6} 37. Rc1 {+1.60/11 3} Kf5
{-1.56/10 1.3} 38. Ke3 {+1.64/11 4} Ke5 {-1.61/10 1.8} 39. Rc2
{+1.63/11 1.9} Kf5 {-1.63/11 2.1} 40. Kd4 {+2.06/11} Rc7 {-2.04/11} 41. c5
{+2.03/11 2.2} Rd7+ {-2.01/11 2.4} 42. Kc4 {+2.00/11 2.3} Rc7 {-2.04/11 4}
43. Rb2 {+2.04/10 2.7} Rc8 {-2.09/10 2.3} 44. a5 {+2.21/10 2.5} Rc7
{-2.20/10 2.1} 45. Rb6 {+2.20/10 2.2} Rd7 {-2.23/10 2.6} 46. Rxa6
{+2.23/10 2.4} Rd2 {-2.34/11 3} 47. Ra8 {+2.81/11 2.7} Rc2+ {-2.80/11 3}
48. Kd4 {+2.91/11 3} Rd2+ {-2.93/12 3} 49. Kc3 {+2.93/12 2.6} Rd1
{-3.52/12 12} 50. a6 {+3.00/10} Rc1+ {-3.53/8} 51. Kb2 {+5.01/11 5} Rxc5
{-5.11/10 1.7} 52. a7 {+5.18/11 4} Ra5 {-5.19/11 1.5} 53. Rf8+ {+5.24/12 3}
Kg4 {-5.31/12 4} 54. a8=Q {+5.26/12 1.9} Rxa8 {-5.93/13 2.4} 55. Rxa8
{+5.96/12 1.6} Kf3 {-6.13/12 3} 56. Rf8+ {+6.19/13 6} Kg4 {-6.20/13 2.7}
57. Rf4+ {+6.20/12 2.0} Kg5 {-6.24/13 2.6} 58. Kc3 {+6.22/12 1.7} Kg6
{-6.21/13 3} 59. g4 {+6.21/12 2.7} Kg5 {-6.17/14 2.2} 60. Rxe4 {+6.78/13}
Kh4 {-6.57/13} 61. Kd4 {+7.38/13 3} Kg5 {-7.34/13 2.1} 62. Ke5
{+7.51/13 2.7} Kg6 {-13.82/14 2.7} 63. f4 {+13.80/13 2.0} Kf7
{-79.94/14 2.0} 64. Kf5 {+79.94/14 1.8} Kg7 {-79.95/18 2.3} 65. Re7+
{+79.95/18 1.9} Kf8 {-79.96/24 1.9} 66. Kf6 {+79.96/28 1.6} Kg8
{-79.97/28 0.2} 67. Kg6 {+79.97/28 0.1} Kf8 {-79.98/28 0.2} 68. Re6
{+79.98/28 0.1} Kg8 {-79.99/28 0.2} 69. Re8# {+79.99/28 0.1}
{White mates} 1-0
well your own example shows the same behaviour
I only marked the 40ies, but it is in all 10th moves...
and no it happened for all games with plenty of time of course
due to my time controls.
Guenther