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Subject: Re: Tao 5.2

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 05:36:44 07/27/02

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On July 26, 2002 at 20:52:54, Yatheen Manicka wrote:

>The problem lies with the Nalimov path in the RES file. If you have 6(or full
>5?) man tablebases or wrong path, Tao does not have sufficient time to
>initialize the engine before the Fritz GUI commands it to play. As a result the
>engine just hangs. You can avoid the problem by using 4-man tablebases or
>loading the engine as winboard with the older Malin adapter with sufficient INIT
>time (at least 30s)
>Ed Manicka

I fixed this in 5.3 where it does not default boot as Winboard anymore, but
waits for either "xboard"  or "uci". Together with some other fixes. Before I
release it I have to investigate some reports about time losses.

Bas.



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