Author: Chessfun
Date: 17:11:48 05/06/00
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On May 06, 2000 at 19:47:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 05, 2000 at 17:35:46, Chessfun wrote: > >>On May 05, 2000 at 14:01:49, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >> >>>On May 05, 2000 at 09:35:19, Mogens Larsen wrote: >>> >>>>On May 05, 2000 at 07:03:40, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>>It is true when posting I use one of the computers. >>>>> >>>>>!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! >>>> >>>>I don't think it's that important, unless at a very short timecontrol. It >>>>depends on the mail software used I would imagine. Outlook or Outlook Express >>>>might not be a good idea. Hard to evaluate the influence correctly IMO. >>> >>>It is very important IMHO : >>> >>>1.) These programs differ very little in playing strength. You need exact >>>results under fair conditions with many games, else you can't tell which is >>>stronger. >> >> >>According to others since this test don't tell which is stonger >>anyway it don't matter. OTOH You need fair conditions, posting >>at message at CCC IMHO has no effect. >> >> >>>2.) If you load a program like IE and Outlook , during the time it loads the >>>program HD-access will basically stop the search. But the clock of the program >>>will keep ticking. If it uses approx. 1 min for one move (not a very short time >>>control) and its a critical position and it only gets 20 seconds effective >>>thinking time ... >> >> >>Outlook for what? posting at CCC?. >>And if you post such a note as 2.) then maybe you should have checked >>with something like taskinfo2000 as I have then you would see the result >>was next to nothing and could have saved yourself the trouble of posting !!. >> >>Thanks. > > > >This is wrong. People complain all the time when using win95/win98. When >you play chess on a server using winboard, and you simply type in a text window >while the engine is playing, that robs a significant part of the CPU from the >engine. I don't notice this under NT or under Linux. But it has been >oft-discussed about win95 in particular... Yeah go Leafs 1-0. Anyway....the computer I use to post here is using win98. I ran taskinfo checking %CPU Usage then clicked on internet and typed a note in notepad while checking %CPU that F6 was using. On average it went down 0.5%. My conclusion therefore is that for the few posts I made at CCC while games were actually running were not affected. darn 1-1... Thanks.
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