Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 01:09:49 03/21/98
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On March 20, 1998 at 07:29:59, Leon Stancliff wrote: >On March 20, 1998 at 04:15:38, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >Hi. Check with Richard Fowell for your answer. He will have it. He >contributes often to these forums. > >Leon Stancliff > >>Hi. I'm able to run the LCT2 test on HIARCS 6.0 for the MAC. >>However, I am not able to get the time in which it found its solution. >>Any suggestions as to what I need to do to get the time? >>I really don't want to watch the test trying to see when it'll find >>the answer.. (: >>Baldo. I believe I posted a response to your question on r.g.c.c. - look there for a longer answer. The short answer: a) use an .EPD version of the test, and include the "bm" tags - easy, but they won't be "legitimate" times, since HIARCS will quit as soon as it gets "the" answer, even though it might (and does) discard some of the right answers for the wrong ones, later. b) Use Gif-gIf-giF from http://www.peda.com/ to make a movie of the PVs and problem number, then replay the movie with A Smaller GIF (also from http://www.peda.com/) *** NOTE *** This doesn't just work on Macs - these utilities are on that site in a Windows 3.1/95/95 version as well as a Mac version. I'm attaching an older post of mine on this type of topic. -RAF ---------- Tip#1 - Capturing the wily PV Have you ever wanted to record the evolution of the PV in the chess program you were using, but couldn't because the program (like HIARCS and Chessmaster 4000) didn't have a "log" feature like Crafty and MacChess? For example, are you wondering how you would determine your program's thoughts at 23072 seconds for the KKKKup 2? Did you know that you CAN record this information as an animated GIF using the demo version of Gif-gIf-giF on Win3.1/95/NT and on the Mac? And similarly, view that animated GIF using the demo version of "A smaller GIF" on the same platforms? You can download both utilities from: http://www.peda.com/ I use Gif-gIf-giF to record LCTII benchmark runs on HIARCS 6.0, to make sure HIARCS holds solutions until the 10 minute mark. Just make sure that capture screen area doesn't include things that change TOO often, like the clock displays. On my Mac 7300/180, 8-bit color, 1 frame/second, the overhead seems to be less than 0.5%. I recommend these utilities.I also used them to make the animated chess games at http://members.aol.com/Macchess/, but that uses features in the full version of Gif-gIf-giF. ------------------ Tip #2 - Bagging a PV for email [Macintosh only - unless someone knows of a Windows utility like this] (You can capture screen text as a bitmap using other utilities, like Screen Thief or Gif-gIf-giF, but Text_Capture_FKEY captures screen text as editable text, not as a bitmap) For programs that don't log the PV, there is an even nicer utility on the Mac if you just want to capture what is on the screen in front of you as text for posterity, and perhaps email. The freeware utility Text_Capture_FKEY2.4, at <http://users.aol.com/jwwalker/> copies the previously uncopiable text in chess display windows. It works great for this on my Mac 7300/180, System 7.5.5. You just download this tiny program, drop a copy of the "suitcase" file into your System Folder (it will go in the Fonts folder automatically), and without even rebooting, now CMD-SHIFT-6 brings up a crosshairs. Just drag a rectangle about text on the display such as in the HIARCS 6 analysis window, or Chessmaster 4000 "Thinking" window, and when you let go of the mouse button, this utility watches as that region is redrawn, and copies the text to the Clipboard, ready for pasting into your email program or text editor. Here's some unedited examples: (on the Mac, the HIARCS "6H23" below, looks like "6>>23") HIARCS 6.0 Mac 6>23 10 d5-d6 h5-f3 O-O f3-h5 c2-c4 a6-a5 h3-h4 a8-c8 = 16 Chessmaster 4000 Mac Best: e7-e6 e2-e3 d7-d5 g1-f3 f8-d6 f1-b5 c8-d7 b1-c3 d7-b5 c3-b5 Depth: 7 Score: 0.16 Previous: e7-e6 c2-c3 d7-d5 e2-e4 f6-e4 f1-b5 b8-c6 c1-g5 e4-g5 Current: e7-e6 c1-g5 d7-d5 e2-e3 c7-c5 b1-d2 c5-d4 e3-d4 f8-d6 Positions Seen: 70912 So, no more typing PVs by hand!
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