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Subject: Re: Chess Assistant 6.1 is available

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 14:57:04 08/22/01

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On August 22, 2001 at 06:06:05, Victor Zakharov wrote:

>>The sos 11/99 works here. Have you put the cygwin1.dll in the sos folder?
>>
>>I have seen some other problem with CA 6.1
>>
>>1. Update of Hugebase
>>   When HugeBase is updated with games from the e-mail service (CA-format)
>>   (Help/Update wizard). The game is not found with search for player.
>>   If mark/substring is used to find the player all games is found.
>>   The mark/substring find several players with exact same name and rating
>>   while in the normal list there is only one name.
>>   The quick fix that I have been doing is 'delete three' and 'build three'
>>   after reciving each e-mail service.
>
>I will try to repeat this. But possibly you should make Tools\Repair base once.

I did this to start with, but delete tree/build tree was a little faster.
The main problem was not to search for player, but the moves was also missing
in the tree.

>
>>2. HTML export
>>   The 'Use different notation settings' under 'Print option/Web export'
>>   is not working.
>>   Quick fix: Change the notation in the 'Option/Notation' before export.
>
>Thanks. Will be fixed. Possibly it should be one more minor update available.
>
>>3. DGT error
>>   Define position (Shift+Ctrl+S) in view mode don't accept input 'From dgt
>>   board'.
>>   There is poping up an error box, before the program terminate.
>>   Tested on WinNT and Win2000
>
>Thanks, fixed now.
>
>>4. Interactive analysis
>>   When the interactive analysis (Default settings) comes to ply 14-15 it start
>>   speeding up the analysis. It use 5-6 sec. on each play and goes rapid up to
>>   100 ply.
>>   Example of position: r3k2r/1bq2ppp/p1p1pn2/8/2NP4/B7/P3BPPP/Q4RK1 b kq -
>>   Could it be a hash problem with Tiger's. They use a lot of time to find the
>>   Fine 70 position, time > 1 min.
>
>Default time settings are too short. To fix this before running Interactive
>analysis check Advanced box and provide Time limitations parameters with values
>more than 1000 seconds. The other way is to edit MaxTime and AbortTime values in
>deep.ini file

Thanks. I will try this.

>
>>5. Engines inline comment
>>   Time is always 00:00.00 when time is automatic put in scoresheet.
>>   Time in analysis window is correct (also for Winboard engines!).
>
>Yes, I see this in Engine-Engine. Playing against engine is Ok.

Yes, it was in eng-eng match. I saw it when I tested sos for the reply to Carlos
Pesce.
By the way sometime SOS need restart between games, is there any method to
manage this (Winboard /xreuse)?

>
>>6. Engines priority
>>   The Engine setup/sensitivity don't work as expected with Winboard engines.
>>
>>Only  1. and 4 is a little annoying.
>
>There where changes to make Winboard engines more stable. I am not sure this
>will be improved. But we will try.

At least the sensitivity=excellent is very useful when analyzing.

Thanks for answering.

Odd Gunnar Malin



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