Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:34:38 02/15/01
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On February 14, 2001 at 09:47:03, David Dahlem wrote: >In the Game Room, some Winboard personalities play almost instantly with their >corresponding white or black box checked in the thinking lines window. This >happens no matter what time control is used. With the box unchecked in the >thinking lines window, they play correctly. >These personalities, Comet, ExChess, Nejmet, and TCBishop, will not go past >depth 5, even in a 2 hour game. So there is no way to use the thinking lines >window with them. There may be others that do this but i'm sure about these >four. Anyone else noticed this behavior? > >Dave Here are my results from using the above four engines: Comet (B28) does OCCASIONALLY go past depth 5, but never past depth 7. Very strange. Selecting the checkbox merely sends a "post" command. It does nothing more. ExChess (3.14) appears to be fine, but I can't see any way to get it to report the depth because it doesn't appear to support post mode. However, the first non-book move it made in a G/10 game took 20 seconds, so that seems like it went past depth 5 to me, even with the checkbox selected. I couldn't get Nejmet (2.6.0) to work at all, and it actually screwed up both CM8000 and my system! Clocks stopped ticking and the engine wouldn't shut down. I eventually had to reboot, probably due to the memory leaks from having to manually shut down the engines. My notes from the development team say that they couldn't get Nejmet to work in CM8000, WinBoard, or even in a DOS prompt.... The Crazy Bishop behaves similarly to Comet. Any thoughts from the authors? jm
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