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Subject: Re: Wcrafty & Winboard problem/question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:41:07 09/08/98

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On September 08, 1998 at 05:07:23, Jouni Uski wrote:

>When I run pure wcrafty.exe I get in P90 about 17000 NPS, but under winboard
>about only 5000 NPS - is this normal?
>
>Jouni

absolutely not.  It should not change one bit, in fact.  However, there
are some known bad things to do when using winboard:

1.  running another chess engine on the same machine at the same time.
This simply doesn't work.

2.  if you are logged on to a chess server, typing in the ICS window will
kill crafty's performance, because winboard takes a good bit of time to
handle the keyboard input plus sending/receiving stuff from the chess
server, which slows crafty *way* down...

3.  don't forget hash size.  Winboard takes memory.  Maybe enough that your
default (crafty.rc file) hash size becomes too large to fit into real memory
and makes things start paging..



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