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Subject: Re: CSTal help........Easter Tourney Game 1

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 04:45:03 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 07:23:27, Chessfun wrote:

>
>Hi,
>  In game 1 of my Easter tourney
>CStal runs itself out of time.

the "bug" is known.
chris wanted to make cstal very human-like,
so it plays incorrect sacs and also oversteps time-controls.
should not happen in 40/120. but in blitz-controls it happens...
if you would play in tournament-time-control, the problem would
IMO not occur. i have played in many tournament, and also
at home, and at home it uses it's own clock, on championships
i normally give myself an extra time between 3-5 minutes for
operating.


>It counts down from 60 secs and
>just ignores the countdown and moves
>20 secs after it. This was after 59 moves,
>I played the game out but am puzzled.

:-))

so one point for chessmaster !
consider: only the result counts.


>CM6K took 32 minutes for the game.

cm6 always uses less time as fritz5.32 and predecessors did.
this is not very intelligent. a program should use the time
where it is needed.
have seen karpov blitz against fritz in aegon tournament.
fritz played against karpov without using the time it could
use. silly.


>What should the hash settings be on CSTal auto?

guess so. but start cstal without other applications in background,
otherwise it will calculate the ram wrong because word
or fritz caught all other ram...


>An amazing game Tal sees itself up by as much as 7
>at times 6 or 5 for long periods, while chessmaster
>hardly ever sees itself as down by more than 1.

:-)))
sounds very interesting to me. thats why cstal often sacs.
cstal does not evaluate the position, it evaluates the
chances to create a plan and the chances to kill the king.


>Here is the game:
>2 equal Cel 433's 60 min/side

why don't you play 60/60 instead of all in 60 ??
consider: cstal runs 2 times faster if you would use a k6-3/450.


>Any help appreciated.

wherefore ?


>Thanks.



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