[pbmserv-dev] A bug in BG and all variants?

[Douglas Zander <dzander@solaria.sol.net>]

Is this considered a bug?   Read what he says carefully and you
will see that there was actually a move that could have had one
more man taken off the board.  In close games, one man can mean
the difference between winning and losing.  I believe that this
is a bug in backgammon and all games that "borrow" from 
backgammon.cpp     Does anyone care to take this on?  :-)
(holy cow!  I just realized this was a game *I* was playing in!?!?  :-)
D'oh!  I wonder if I won?   :-)

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 Douglas Zander            | 
 dzander@solaria.sol.net   | 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | 

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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:25:15 -0400
From: XXXX@XXXX.XXXX
To: pbmserv@gamerz.net, user@gamerz.net
Subject: Message from hardy via PBM Server

Hello Douglas!

I just discovered a bug in the code for greedy mode.
On move 87 the server automatically moved 7-12,9-12.
A better move was 7-10,9-H so the player should be
given the chance to decide about his move in cases
like that.
Maybe one of you programers can take care of this.

Thanks a lot again for your efforts!

Hardy



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On 19.04.2001 at 17:53 Richard's PBeM Server wrote:

>Summary of Moultezim Board 89
>
>It is dzander's turn.
>
>Eks: hardy
>Ohs: dzander
>
>Ohs Move 84: Roll: 3,6  Move: 19-H,22-H (Auto)
>Eks Move 85: Roll: 5,3  Move: 8-H,10-H (Auto)
>Ohs Move 86: Roll: 2,5  Move: 20-H,23-H (Auto)
>Eks Move 87: Roll: 5,3  Move: 7-12,9-12 (Auto)
>Ohs Move 88: Roll: 5,1  Move: 19-24,24-H (Auto)
>Eks Move 89: Roll: 4,5  Move: 12-H,12-H (Auto)
>
>
>           __________________________________________________
>          |                        ||                   <<   |X:hardy   
>          |24  23  22  21  20  19  || 18  17  16  15  14  13 |  7/ 7 G  
>       OO | O       O   O       O  ||                        |            
>.-----.OO |             O       O  ||                        |            
>|o    |OO |                     O  ||                        |            
>|     | O |                        ||                        |            
>|    o| O |                        ||                        |            
>`-----'   |                        ||                        |            
>.-----.   |                        ||                      X | X          
>|o    |   |                        ||                      X | X          
>|  o  |   |                        ||                      X |XX          
>|    o|   |                        ||                     XX |XX          
>`-----'   |                        ||                     XX |XX          
> 30/ 7 G  | 1   2   3   4   5   6  ||  7   8   9  10  11  12 |            
>O:dzander |________________________||________________________|