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Subject: Re: Comet/Crafty - This is a draw?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:27:38 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 15:39:46, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On March 13, 2001 at 14:50:35, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On March 13, 2001 at 04:43:47, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Pete,
>>>
>>>what engine did you use
>>> (dos or winboard) ?
>>>
>>>Greetings, Uli
>>
>>It was the Dos one.  I played it against the Winboard Crafty one move at a time,
>>30 minutes for each move, and since I ran it in Windows ME's Dos, I rebooted for
>>each move.
>>
>>It's set at level 14, and I load the game with "alt L".
>
>This may explain things. I know that "load game" of the DOS engine has never
>been working perfectly okay. I must admit that I neither didn't care too much
>about it; I just got kind of used to it.
>
>Sorry for this inconvenience caused by my laziness.
>
>Perhaps I will cure it this time.

Not such a huge problem, I usually just work around things that don't work so
well in free programs.  It's hard to complain about free stuff.  I'll probably
try to load it as an epd to get around the problem.

>
>BTW why did you have to reboot ?
>
>Regards, Uli

Yep, every 1/2 move the computer got rebooted.  What I did was make a Windows ME
emergency boot floppy, and then I deleted everything on it except command.com,
and that was the only way I could get Dos Comet to use 64mb hashtables.  It's
easy with the Winboard or Chessbase versions, but the Winboard version lacks
versatility, and I don't know all that much about the Chessbase interface.

Pete



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