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Subject: Re: Ways to beat some computers

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:56:23 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 09:11:27, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 22, 2001 at 05:01:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2001 at 13:03:47, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>2 8 ? I said 8 moves a second, that is
>>>
>>>level 8 0:01 0
>>>
>>>in winboard lingo.
>>>
>>>I don't believe that I have anything broken as I've tried this on at least 10
>>>vastly different machines running different versions linux.
>>
>>I'm running level 10 0:01 0 here now on a Cyrix120 and it works fine...
>>
>>But I have to:
>>
>>disable opening book, smaller hash(else it forfeits while clearing them),
>>and disable all xboard gimmicks like legality checking, move animation and
>>highlighting.
>>
>
>OK, that might be it. I always have legality checking, move animation and
>highlighting on. I thought winboard was able to keep track of the time _it_ uses
>and the time the engine uses. I guess it isn't.

Never thought about that.  The winboard/xboard docs say to turn animation off
if using an engine, because it _does_ take cpu cycles to smoothly move a piece
on the board.  The legality check doesn't do a thing speed-wise as I run with
that on all the time.  But I always have animation turned off...



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