Author: John Merlino
Date: 16:20:21 08/05/01
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On August 05, 2001 at 18:43:21, Pablo Urzua wrote: >I had been unable to play unrated games against Crafty 18.10 and/or 17.04 with >ChessMaster8000 (patch 1.03 and 1.04). After about 10 to 18 moves Crafty stop >playing and thinking. I tried at crafty.rc with book on or off, ponder off or >on,at ChessMaster with book on or off, with ponder on or off, but always exit. >Also I tried with different sizes of hash´s configurations and cache at >crafty.rc, but always exited.I am using xboard as command parameter at the CM >xboard engine personality setup window. >At the xboard engine window of CM nothing peculiar is shown when exiting. The >last command that appear is always "go". >Only sometimes appear a popup saying "grave failure provoked by crafty, the >program will close". >I asked ChessMaster support, but they did not give any creative answer. >I have a PC with Windows95,Pentium 133Mhz and 48Mb of RAM. >If somebody have any hint about this problem please let me know. >Thanks, >Pablo Urzua You may have asked Chessmaster support, but you didn't ask me. ;-) This is strange as nobody else has reported it (to me). Did it USED to work before getting the 1.0.3 patch? Have you set up crafty to use its own book or one of the Chessmaster books? Does it appear that Crafty is making book moves correctly, and then hanging as soon as it comes out of book? How much hash space have you told it to allocate? Your 48MB machine can probably not handle anything more than 2-4MB, since Windows and Chessmaster take up quite a bit by themselves (not counting any other programs that may be running). How much free hard drive space do you have? If Windows' virtual memory manager cannot even allocate disk cache space, this could be causing the "grave failure". Try telling Crafty to allocate NO hash table space, just as a test. That's just some thoughts that I have for now. jm
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