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Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Mar 31, 2019 05:59 PM UTC:

Before I get into playing CwDA, I want to ask a question first because I'm trying to debug something and really want to knock this out ...  When ChessV hosts Fairy-Max, I sometimes have issues with game termination when Fairy-Max reports a draw.  Here's a sample of the relevant part of the log:

<Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): move g8g7
<Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): 1/2-1/2 {Draw by repetition}
>Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): force
>Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): result 1/2-1/2 {Drawn game}
>Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): ping 28
<Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): Error (unknown command): result
<Fairy-Max 5.0b(0): pong 28

Fairy-Max reports the draw by repetition.  (It is correct.)  ChessV then turns around and tells Fairy-Max that the game is over and Fairy-Max complains that it doesn't know what "result" means.  Is this a problem with ChessV or with Fairy-Max?  (Should I not be reporting that the game is over?)