Author: Slater Wold
Date: 15:51:19 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 18:35:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 22, 2002 at 18:28:15, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I have tried to analyze the same position twice now with Crafty 19.0. Both time >>it has locked, both in the same place. Coincedence? Or a bug? >> >>I am using the exe from Hyatt's FTP site. This output is from the screen: > >[snip] > >> 20 109:00 -2.61 1. d8=Q Nf7+ 2. Ke7 Nxd8 3. Kxd8 Ba5+ >> 4. Kd7 Bc7 5. Nxe3 Bxg3 6. Kc6 Bf2 >> 7. Nd5 Bd4 8. Kb7 Nb4 9. Nxb4 cxb4 >> 10. Bc2+ Kg7 11. Kc6 h5 12. Kd6 (s=7) >> 20 163:45 5/19* 1. Nxe3 >> >> >> >>This is after about 18.5 hours of running. The time is not updating, although >>Windows still reports 100% usage of the CPUs. > >Two distinct possibilities: > >I have seen two effects that both look like that... >If you get a fail high or fail low at that point, it might take a very, very >long time to resolve. I've seen both last forever. But the time always updates. Remember, this is almost 1,000 minutes later. Still it had not updated. >Another thing that has happened is that the timer wraps. However, when that >happens (usually on very long analysis of several days) you will see a nonesense >number in the time like > > 20 991834234163:45 5/19* 1. Nxe3 > >That problem is obviously going to be very hard to reproduce.
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