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Subject: Re: Comet bug when running in Winboard in matches against Crafty

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 00:52:58 05/22/98

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On May 21, 1998 at 23:18:39, Komputer Korner wrote:

>When playing against Crafty in the Winboard chess GUI, the Comet process
>sometimes will not shut down when a game is finished and a new game
>starts up. Therefore there can be  2, 3, 4, or more Comet processes
>still running in RAM each grabbing some of the CPU after a few games
>into the match. You can shut down the extra processes, but it is tricky
>deciding which Comet process is the actual game process. Until this is
>solved alomg with the inability to turn pondering off for Comet during
>matches, there can never be fair unbiased matches using the Winboard
>GUI.

When winboard quits a game, it has to send the command "quit" to the
chess programs.
On receipt of "quit", Comet exits (it's very simple, no doubt at all).
What else can I do ?
May be you should be a little bit more careful with assigning bugs to
progs ?




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