Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:45:19 06/29/01
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On June 29, 2001 at 05:34:57, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On June 29, 2001 at 03:29:07, Harald Faber wrote: > >>I have some trouble playing Century with the auto232 as master. From time to >>time (don't know if there is a rule when) Century makes a system check to verify >>the performance. After this check the current game is broken. As I can see in >>the logfile, there is an absolutely different position on the board than on the >>remote computer. And the auto232 stops too. I start Century with the options "a >>b l1 s w8". Should I change or remove one or more of these parameters to avoid >>the above described problems? At the moment I have stopped testing Century3 in >>my "Tiger or Pussycat" tourney because of this trouble. Any help welcome because >>Century is doing fine against Tiger 14, 2.5-2.5 after the first 5 games (with >>black), and either due to this problem or due to some misevaluating the >>position, lost the 6th game so everything is OK. > >Hi! > >Yes it is big problems playing against the CB-programs. I guess C3 was going to >lose the sixth game, in this case it updates the learner and checks the >auto232-system and stops the game. If you play against a program with timer it >works and starts the next game after time-out, in example against Shredder it is >possible to play long matches, against Chesspartner many games in a row but >sometimes a commando throws C3 back in DOS. It just stops the autoplayer. > Against other DOS-programs it works >ok. I could play several games in a row against N8 because after about one hour >N8 begins the next game, so it is possible in tournament games but speed games >with a break of one hour is to time consuming. You also have to check all the >results as C3s results usually are not correct. I guess it isn't possible to >remove the lines in the program that does the auto232-check because the learner >works excellent, in 100 game matches against Shredder5 C3 never lost the same >game twice. It always tried another move after leaving the same book-line. > >I play with a and w8. > >Continue the match it just takes a bit longer or change to the CP-GUI. > >Bertil I already use the CP-GUI...what do you know about the system check? Is the a- or b-param responsible for that? Or does Century do that automatically in autoplayer-mode?
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