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

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 04:01:34 06/29/01

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On June 29, 2001 at 05:45:19, Harald Faber wrote:

>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?

Hi!

No I don't believe it is the parameters, it is built in you can see some files
for that if you compare it to earlier Rebels. I guess you can't remove them,
maybee I should try it and see if it works at all.

What is the b parameter, I don't remember Ed said anything about the use of it.

Bertil



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