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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 14:49:23 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 15:50:27, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On November 13, 2002 at 13:01:57, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2002 at 11:08:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 13, 2002 at 09:54:46, Ricardo R Santana wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello All
>>>>
>>
>>>
>>>for a match, use xboard, -mm to enable match mode, -mg x to play x games in the
>>>match,
>>>then use the -fh and -sh to choose the "host computers" for the two crafty
>>>executables.  If
>>>you omit -fh, then one will run on the machine you run xboard on...
>>
>>
>>I have never gotten this to work with any program other than Crafty on the
>>second machine eg Yace, Arasan, my own!  The error seems to be associated with
>>permissions on fh, but try as I may I have never solved it.
>>
>>The first fails after the first move .. Error writing to first chess program:
>>Broken pipe.. (even if I pretend it is Crafty)
>>
>>The second works.
>>
>>Frank
>
>Hi Frank,
>
>I've had something like this working properly, but I'm afraid I can't find my
>scripts. Over one summer, I played more than 1200 games this way. One thing I
>remember is that I had both programs running in my home directory (ie
>/home/andyw). For some reason, the one which was running remotely couldn't
>change directory or something. This was all at my former employers' place. I'll
>have a dig through some old CDs to see if I've got backups of the scripts
>anywhere.
>
>Andrew

Yes...the problem seems to be that the program running remotely does not obey
the xboard directory path command. (In this case -fd /home/fp/chess).


Thanks

Frank



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