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Tibono
If the question arises in the context of rating evaluation, to my humble opinion it is as simple as:
- are you rating the device? If so, H8-bug blunders leading to lost games must be taken in the calculation. A Saitek Chess Challenger deserves a slightly lower CElo rating than a GK2100, because it will statistically lose some extra games due to the bug.
- are you rating the chess engine, focusing on the author's 32K program? Is so, you should use a bug-free device or, if unavailable to you, neutralize the H8-bug occurrences; whether replaying the game or using the workaround.
During a competition, that's another story. The tournament rules should apply. Long time ago, mainframe computers chess tournaments granted a decent but limited time for recovering from a computer or program crash, or communication failure, to restore the position and restart thinking... just because it was frequent.
MfG,
Tibono
Yes, tournaments are not so easy. The problem if one computer gets a free win and the other contestants don't, then you get arguments of unfairness. It would be easier to banish the computer from the tournament or as you said have a fixing rule. If the tournament condition were based on rewards, this problem would be fixed pretty quickly, same if this was a friendly tournament and the result impacts (forget ELO) promotion of another computer to a higher league, you would quickly create rules outside an ELO rating.
Regards,
Nick