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Subject: Re: 2 Chess Programs on one Computer.

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:35:28 04/26/98

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On April 25, 1998 at 13:55:37, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>On April 25, 1998 at 03:33:15, Dan Newman wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 1998 at 02:06:29, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On April 25, 1998 at 00:06:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>><snip>
>>>>
>>>There doesn't seem to be any way to turn this behavior of
>>CM5000 off.  This makes any contest involving CM5000 and
>>carried out on one machine potentially unfair
>
>I would like to agree with that 100 % percent.
>Probably you can forget testing on ONE machine completely,
>because you never know how many resources program A or B
>get from your one machine. On this forum there are many
>better experts than I am, but I have never heard that anybody
>could be sure your 2 programs get the same chances on 1 machine.
>There is no way around 2 identical computers I think. Bert!

With DOS programs, there is absolutely no problem. You can turn a DOS
program "off" when it is in the background.


    Christophe



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