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Subject: Don't play matches under Arena

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:42:49 04/23/02

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From looking at the logfiles, it is obvious that your setup
if goofed, and several people already pointed this out.

But there is another thing that is very wrong. In your games
Sjeng resigns. This can't happen; Sjeng never resigns.

The interface should not do this, unless it handles the
book and learning itself. Fritz and Shredder Classic do this, so
it is acceptable for them to resign in place of the engine, but Arena
does not. Arena is totally broken in this regard, and that is why
I think it should never be used for matches.

If the interface is resigning in Sjeng's place, learning
will be totally broken..

In a 1-on-1 match, this is fatal. If I let Sjeng play against
Crafty and disable (or break) learning on Sjengs side, it's
very normal to get +25 -3 =4 results.

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GCP



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