Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: I Don't Think Rebel Will Win (EOM)

Author: Eduard Nemeth

Date: 07:41:40 08/23/01

Go up one level in this thread


On August 23, 2001 at 10:33:58, Amir Ban wrote:

>On August 23, 2001 at 07:34:58, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2001 at 07:20:04, Graham Laight wrote:
>>
>>I agree. But, PC from Junior was cruched, so he play on an another PC!
>
>Junior did not switch computers. The problem was overheating, and it was solved
>by putting a ventillator next to the machine (thanks Jaap for suggesting the
>solution).
>
>On the 21st move, after more than 20 minutes of thinking without getting a move,
>a check showed the CPU's idle. We took an official timeout, rebooted and
>restarted. After a few minutes this happened again. We then took a second
>timeout, put the ventillator, and everything was fine after that. Junior lost
>about half an hour on the clock overall.
>
>Judging by the result, the ventillator was really something.
>
>Amir

Thanks for this information, Amir!

My congratulation to the Title!

Deep Junior is strongest program in this tournament.

Eduard



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.