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Subject: Re: A Delphi - WinBoard problem

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:25:17 09/26/04

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On September 25, 2004 at 14:38:49, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>On September 25, 2004 at 07:08:10, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>The polling routine is ok. It will block while there is no input.
>>
>>My guess is that the problem is in your pondering.
>>
>>Do you have a sleep in your waiting function ?
>>
>>ie
>>
>>While not(oppo_made_move) do
>>begin
>>   application.processmessages;
>>   sleep(50);
>>end;
>>
>>
>>Tony
>
>The problem manifests with pondering off. But your idea is right!
>What I overlooked is that it is the main thread that should "sleep", not the
>polling thread.
>Thanks a lot! I owe you at least a few beers. ;)
>
>Btw, will you participate in the Dutch Open?

Yes, you can hand over the beers then :) Elke will be there too.

"XiniX dubbel" is not very strong yet in positional play, but it does nice
tacticly. ( Never had a program searching >1Mn/s)

I still have some problems with the dual version however ( quite unstable
search), not easy testing on a single processor but I have a hyperthreading
machine to test on for the next few weeks.

Also still have a problem with repetition checking. Quite annoying to see your
engine kill another and then repeat the position 3 times. I'm pretty sure the
problem is in the overlapping part of game history and searched plies. If the
kids keep quite I'll find it fast :)

I'm thinking of adding some very dubious forward pruning I started playing with,
but I need more positional knowledge for that and I don't know if I have the
time for that.

BTW still need an (Arena) openingbook !! If anyone feels up to it ?

Tony



>
>Cheers,
>Martin



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