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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