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Subject: Re: Crafty lost on time?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:38:42 10/05/00

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On October 05, 2000 at 18:50:32, Volker Pittlik wrote:

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>>>>I used Winboard's "conventional chess clock" option (not the "incremental clock" option) and selected 40 moves in 6 minutes.
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>Very strange. I've never seen Crafty loosing on time at these time controls.
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>>>I can't imagine it losing on time, unless there is something else running on
>>>the machine at the same time causing some paging or context-switching that
>>>is causing some time loss...
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>On my NT machines Crafty is loosing on time (very seldom) at "game in 2 minutes"
>and faster (when playing against another winboard engine). When playing against
>itself 40 moves in eight _seconds_ seems to be a magical border.
>
>Volker


I play lots of "game in one second" tests, which really stress-tests everything
in the engine, and games go well over 100 moves all the time.



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