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Subject: Re: Enrique plays new tournament with only top programs?!

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 05:07:42 12/30/99

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On December 30, 1999 at 07:01:52, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 30, 1999 at 06:47:12, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>The bug I am most concerned about has to do with terminating games for no
>>reason, which is a royal pain. The other major bug of not resetting engine
>>parameters after switching from Fritz to Hiarcs and viceversa can be taken care
>>of once you know it, but there is nothing one can do about terminating games
>>before they are finished. Other bugs regard cosmetics or analyzing positions,
>>but are harmless for my tournament.
>
>
>You mean terminating games with the autoplayer?

And with engine-engine. I forgot another nasty bug: games lost on time by
Crafty, Junior 5 and Junior 6. This happened to me in eng-eng several times. I
don't know if it happens in auto232.

>What is it with not resetting the engine parameters? Does it happen only if you
>change them, or do Fritz and Hiarcs have absolutely different parameters that
>are not refreshed? I think of the following:
>Fritz engine is loaded, has pawn value (or any other setting) of 100. Now I
>change to Hiarcs who has a pawn value of 123 as default. What happens? Will
>Hiarcs use the 123 or take over the 100? Or will Fritz take over the 123 after
>again switching from Hiarcs to Fritz?

It has to do with the default selectivity level: 2 in Fritz, 5 in Hiarcs. If you
don't reset parameters when switching from one engine to the other, Fritz will
play with selectivity 5 and Hiarcs with 2. That's how I threw away the best part
of my first 19 days with F6.

>>By the way, how do we do things? Do I post the
>>games here or I better send them to Steve and he can put them somewhere in
>>Resources or whatever is called?
>>Enrique
>
>Ask Steve directly, it could be a bit too much if you post the 20 games over and
>over here. Collect them all, make an archive out of it and let Steve provide the
>archive in the resource center.

I think it's best to post or to send the games to Steve after each match is
played.

Enrique




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