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Subject: Re: DanChess 1.07 is an amazing newcomer ! ( Long Post)

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:35:35 10/27/04

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On October 27, 2004 at 10:09:48, Uri Blass wrote:

[snip]

>Baron got only depth 5 in 41 seconds and it is not the only case(it happened
>also at move 19 with 21 seconds).
>
>I think that maybe it is better if programmers tell their program to refuse to
>play if they do not get enough nodes per second when the user may choose the
>minimal number of nodes per second based on the speed of his computer.
>
>I think to make minimal number of nodes per second as a parameter and probably
>suggest to set it as 1/2 of the number of nodes per second that the program get
>in the opening position.
>
>In case that the program does not get enough nodes per second it will refuse to
>play and report game aborted by insufficient number of nodes.
>

What are typical reasons for such misbehaviours? Based on the posts here in CCC,
these things happen quite frequently.

The suggestion above though sounds like "rebooting Windows if something's wrong"
or "the doctor giving you cough syrup if she doesn't have a clue what's wrong".
Hardly something I'd call a solution.

Sargon



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