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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 04:53:31 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 07:45:03, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>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.
>

No, I don't see it that way.
Since it's time is buggy I see it as drawn
otherwise it will likely lose all on time.


>>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.
>

I agree not intelligent, just noted it as a comment.

>
>>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...


Nothing else running.
>
>
>>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.
>

It was a great game, you should play it over. I think
41. Rd1 probably wins.

>
>>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.
>
>
You yourself had stated in the past Didzis got good results.
He ran a tourney at game 60 where CSTal did very well and
that was on a single computer without pondering. This is
on two seperate computers. Yes but I don't have 2 K6-3-450's
I have two celeron 433's, also I read a post of yours about
someone sending you a game played on cel 433 which CSTal did well in.


>>Any help appreciated.
>
>wherefore ?
>

Thanks it was for the hash question.

>
Thanks.



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