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Subject: Re: Century 3, problem with auto232, system check

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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