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

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 02:00:32 05/23/98

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Crafty has no problems exiting but maybe that is because it is 1st on
the command line. The  real effect of extra Comet processes is a
weakened Comet!!!!


On May 22, 1998 at 03:52:58, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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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