Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:14:20 11/16/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 09:09:19, Amir Ban wrote:
>On November 16, 1998 at 03:28:16, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>
>>That the opponent don´t save games playing against Junior 5 with autoplayer
>>is NO general bug.
>>I play the SSDF games against Nimzo98, and Nimzo98 saves the games OK.
>>So nobody is cheating.
>>
>>Venlig hilsen
>>
>>Hans Chr. Lykke
>
>
>There was a lot of talk about the J5 autoplayer lately, and here's what I know
>now:
>
>- Sometimes the J5 autoplayer gets stuck, or, according to some, crashes. This
>does not happen all the time, but on some systems only, and some even report it
>depends on the engine (more problems with Crafty15.20 than with Junior5). So far
>ChessBase are still trying to reproduce this. I managed to reproduce this
>yesterday so I can confirm this.
>
> According to what I see, the engine stops playing, always at a point where it
>is lost. The GUI is alive and you can adjudicate the game, or wait for the
>timeout, and move to the next game. That's on my system and maybe on others the
>GUI crashes or goes dead.
>
>- The problem that save-game comes after new-game has so far only been reported
>by Hannu, I think. I don't see this and neither do ChessBase. Even when the
>autoplayer is stuck, when you snap out of it it will save-game and then
>new-game, at least on my system.
>
> A possible explanation to what Hannu saw is this: If the J5-autoplayer is the
>slave and is stuck and stops responding, the master will wait until the timeout,
>then save the game, start a new game, and wait, ad infinitum.
>
> If anyone else sees this problem, please report it.
>
>Amir
Amir, it is really fair play from you to give us the information. I appreciate.
I would like to inform you, in case you do not know, that Thorsten Czub tried to
autoplay Junior 5 against Chess Tiger. The time control was game in 1 hour IIRC.
He started the match, then went to work. When he came back, he discovered that
the match had stopped after several games (how many I don't know). He has been
unable to continue the match from this point.
So at least he wanted to send me the games, in Tiger's format. But he was unable
to find them: it SEEMS that the games have not been saved.
I don't know the inside of the autoplayer software. What I know is that in Tiger
I use the "NONAME" driver, so I simply rely on the "SR" command to save the
game, and on the "AN" command to start a game.
One question: does your autoplayer transmit the name "match.xxx" to the save
command of this opponent? Or do you use a different naming convention? I rely on
the "match.xxx" name to direct the saved game file to a special directory. If
you don't send me this name, the games are not saved in the "autoplayer"
directory, and it might be the reason why Thorsten did not find them...
Christophe
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