I'm back. Went 5/5 today. :)

Would be over 2000 if not for this ticket (which I still haven't cashed in).

FIDE Grand Prix Baku 2014 Round 6: "Console The Losers" SPECIAL : Svidler [cash in ticket] 3 YOU WIN! COLLECT 5 7:2 4.61 5 Oct-08-14

Yay!

< (1) TIMER 14,232 >

I am afraid to say it is not quite fixed yet as you double counted my wrong 534 winning on the draw and I should have been on 14516 instead of either 15,050 or 13,982. I am sure of this.

I was told by wordfunph (who hadn't previously made a single error all leg, by the way) that there had been an incorrect payoff on Jako-Caruana.

No problem! I have a utility "undo_payoff" which took all of the money away from people who bet on the draw, returns any tickets for that bet which were discarded, and then makes the bet payable again.

Then I went to pay the bet again -- but like a dope, I paid it off as a draw for a second time. (In my defense, that's still what our site had as the game result.)

When this was pointed out, I went back to undo_payoff once more, and again everybody who cashed in a draw-ticket had their funds removed, and people who tossed winning tickets saw the tickets magically reappear.

The second time around, I paid it off correctly (0-1). In principle nothing should be different than if it was done right in the first place.

What do you mean when you say <you double counted my wrong 534 winning>. If you mean to say that you received a winning ticket for 534 on the 1/2-1/2 result and cashed it in twice, that's entirely possible, but undo_payoff also removes that money from your account. (Or at least it's supposed to. The software was tested years ago and this is the first we've heard of a discrepancy.)

Careful analysis of the situation revealed that there is a type of bug in undo_payoff. It really isn't equipped to perform its action more than one time.

When the time comes to decide who to "penalize" for cashing in a winning ticket, it just examines the logfiles. (It's not really a penalty, since they already received the chessbucks, but they must be given back.)

But in this case we ran it twice, so people got penalized twice, even if they didn't cash in their ticket twice. In the case of TIMER and about a 15 others, he cashed in his ticket one time but because the software was run twice he got penalized twice.

Good news is, that I have all of the data required to restore things back to normal.

We're going to make an exception to our normal policy of bettor-confidentially to expeditiously address this matter. The following members just received a silent account credit due to being double-charged during the previous confusion:

<fm avari viraf> <greed and death> <bubuli55> <moulicules> <Nightranger> <Touch of Knight> <wallytherhino> <TIMER> <Penguincw>

Note that many people had bets on the draw for this game which are not listed above, because they did not cash in their ticket prior to the correction. So if you bet on the draw and don't see your name above, don't panic, your account is just fine. Your bet lost and you're out the dough, just like it should be.

The user <Imran Iskandar> was a unique case: he was also double-charged by the software, but our records show that he in fact actually cashed in the draw-ticket two times, so his account should be correct and will not be credited.

I will not list the amount of chessbucks involved for reasons of game confidentiality, but it is exactly equal to the amount of money you had on the draw bet for Jako-Caruana. If you would like me to clarify further, email me at chess@chessgames.com and I'll explain exactly what was added to your account.

Yes, it's normal. Your maximum bet depends on your net worth (and to a lesser extent, your credit rating), and your net worth just went up significantly.

I thought it'd be less, because opposing pawns block each other to the promotion square.