Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 21:53:36 05/21/98
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On May 20, 1998 at 03:53:09, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On May 19, 1998 at 12:24:50, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>>You are right. Comet is now winning the matches at 3 2 time controls. I
>>now have a small opening book for Crafty and have put in the proper hash
>>tables, so each side is using 24Mb main hash with Crafty also using 4Mb
>>pawn hash. Actually I spoke too soon about the results of 60 moves/1
>>minute time controls. Comet actually had the upper hand in the end.
>>However I am running these matches on a pentium 166 and Crafty does much
>>better on Pentium Pros and above. Can you definitely verify that
>>pondering is turned off for Comet during these matches in Winboard? I
>>have pondering turned off for Crafty but I don't know how to turn the
>>pondering off or whether it is by default off for Comet. If Comet is
>>pondering then these matches aren't fair.
>
>Unfortunately, I am not really familar with WINBOARD. By default,
>Comet's pondering should be turned on. ("Pondering" means use of
>opponent's time too, right ?)
>If you can manage to send an "easy" command via the WINBOARD interface
>to Comet, then it will turn off pondering.
>
>But I think it would also be fair to let both programs ponderm, wouldn't
>it ?
When both programs ponder I get error messages and vanishing pieces when
running in WIN NT 4 SP 3. Also even when only Comet is pondering, The
first Comet process doesn't exit out of RAM when the next game starts.
Thus half way through a match, there are many Comet processes in RAM
each taking up CPU time. How would you set pondering off on a command
line with Winboard? There are other problems with these matches such as
both programs letting their clock run out even when in Fischer time
controls.
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