Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 06:59:21 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 08:30:28, Günther Simon wrote: >No Mike, if you will look again at the FCP Forum you can see >from the statement of one of Gromits authors (Kai Skibbe) as >a reply to my post concerning your match that its obviously >not the pondering issue which caused search depths on your >machine in 19sec which I reach on a slower machine in 0.22sec :)) >Either it was your setup or the GUI itself which screwed things up. >BTW you should really update to the newest Arena as you wrote that >you used the oldest Arena beta ever released ;) Exactly. The earlier beta versions were not especially reliable for eng-eng matches IIRC. There are no rational reasons to use older Arena versions. >OTH it seems that Jorge used the newest beta of it in the Yace vs. >Sjeng match and the same weird searches happened... only other thing >I can guess is a wrong hastable size for Sjeng as the default is >_very_ high and one has to change it if Ram is beyond 512MB otherwise >swapping can slow down the speed of Sjeng a really lot. The other possibility is some of the options settable under "Install and select engine" like "Engine priority". There could be a difference between low and normal. However, I suspect that engine configuration is the culprite. The irony regarding the Arena GUI is the supposedly easier installation procedure over WinBoard. The number of available settings and features seems to nullify that advantage somewhat. It's a good GUI, no doubt about it. But in the end it's the user that determines how succesfully it is used or misused. Unfortunately :-). Regards, Mogens
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