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Subject: Re: ICC Green List - Aug 14 - HEEEEELP!!!!!!!

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 07:24:47 08/16/00

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On August 16, 2000 at 08:30:34, José Carlos wrote:

>On August 16, 2000 at 07:34:11, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2000 at 17:31:01, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>On August 14, 2000 at 16:05:34, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>
>>>>           ****************************************************
>>>>           **                                                **
>>>>           **                 The Green List                 **
>>>>           **                                                **
>>>>           **       Developmental Chess Programs on ICC      **
>>>>           **                                                **
>>>>           ****************************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>8/14/2000 16:03 EDT
>>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>                         Active Accounts -- Blitz
>>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>ACCOUNT        BLITZ  R(mhz)     AVG   CHANGE   WIN%  GP/WK   TGP  ACTIVE
>>>>
>>>>JZInsomniac     2786   2805  |   2795    -3  |   62%    28    412    100
>>>>PostModernist   2755   2785  |   2664   +30  |   67%   222  13013    410
>>>>counterplay     2735   2776  |   2729    +1  |   73%    66    410     43
>>>>Falke           2711   2696  |   2664   +15  |   74%     6    130      7
>>>>MissSilicon     2662   2692  |   2700   -13  |   61%    35   2082    405
>>>>QueenMaxima     2623   2653  |   2533   +29  |   79%   341   9422    157
>>>>Hossa           2619   2652  |   2507   +37  |   57%   262  15378    214
>>>>Amy             2616   2635  |   2598    +5  |   63%    27    196      7
>>>>ArasanX         2631   2609  |   2598   +11  |   63%    31   1838    405
>>>>Grok            2548   2578  |   2541    +2  |   57%     3    179     35
>>>>lambchop        2498   2548  |   2525    -9  |   53%     3    140      0
>>>>inmichess       2441   2471  |   2423    +6  |   39%     4    262     21
>>>>Tinker          2478   2458  |   2492    -5  |   69%   112   3447     35
>>>>Dorky           2422   2452  |   2353   +22  |   67%   269    548     14
>>>>kerrigan        2422   2393  |   2451   -10  |   40%     0     30     35
>>>>stormx          2205   2205  |   2188    +5  |   75%    20    598      7
>>>>LoadedGun       2200   2171  |   2292   -31  |   78%    51    475     64
>>>
>>>  I have a bug I cannot understand. When compiling Averno in Debug mode, it
>>>works slow, but correctly in every computer. When compiling it in Release mode,
>>>with speed optimization, it works fine on PII's but makes strange moves on
>>>Athlon's. As Roger's account is running an Athlon-800, my program is making
>>>horrible moves, losing game after game.
>>>  Any idea about what is happening? Please... help me!
>>
>>Sounds to me like an uninitialized variable. In debug mode they are set to zero,
>>in release mode they just get any value. Take a testposition and look if you
>>need the same number of nodes to solve it in debug as you need in release.
>>
>>Tony
>
>  Thanks for the idea. I'll check it as soon as I get home (I'm at work right
>now), but if I remember right, the number of nodes was different. But, what most
>confuses me is that that behaviour does not happen on the PII.
>
>  José C.

Don't let ourself go crazy on this kind of things. If the nodecount is
different, there is a bug. It's more important to solve what did went wrong than
to find out "why, where, what should have gone wrong ( but didn't)".

 Tony



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