Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 10:20:49 04/03/98
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On April 01, 1998 at 01:48:00, JW de Kort wrote:
>Hi!
>
>In some old posting on CCC i read a mail from someone who played a
>matche between two programs ont the same computer. Can anybody tell me
>how this is possible? I tried it myself using windows 3.11, but most of
>the interesting chessprograms in my collection make the system crash
>after a while. Only the old program Psion does not.
> Is there any better way to do this? Pleas help!
>
>Jan Willem
I just remembered. When I had Windows 3.11 I had Chessica and CM4000
installed. And I was able to play the two against each other. I would
just leave them both booted. After one program made a move I'd just hit
alt-tab and up pops the other program. No problem. In the beginning
CM4000 would always beat Chessica very easily, even when CM was moving
at less than 10sec a move and Chessica took about 3 minutes. What is
strange {after writing a nasty letter to the seller) that when I reduced
the hash in Chessica it played very much better. The lower the hash, the
better it played! I don't know. It might have had something to do with
the Window 3.11 memory. Other programs worked well also. Fritz4 would
not want to calculate, but you could move manually without analysis. I
think I was able to use Genius also. Anyway, it is possible with some
programs.
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