Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 00:34:18 05/22/98
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On May 22, 1998 at 00:53:36, Komputer Korner wrote:
>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.
Peculiar! I have made 40-50 games between Comet and TCB, GNU, Crafty,
and Patzer on my PC at home (sudden death mode) - always both programs
pondering. No problem. I've used WIN-95. Roland Pfister didn't report
any problem either on his WIN-NT system.
Don't know what's going on. May be, winboard (or is it windows ?) is a
rather complicated system ?
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