Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:47:42 03/24/03
I ran a match between list4.61 and movei ponder off(movei always changed the first move) and the result surprised me 30.5-9.5 for movei It is clear for me that something was wrong in the match and it seems that for some reason list was running slower when it was not the case for movei My question is if there is a way to prevent this in engine-engine games. I want my programs to refuse to run if another application make them significantly slower because I do not want to get disinformation in games. I prefer to get no information and not disinformation so it may be productive if there is some application that stops matches when one of the engines is slowed down by a significant factor. I used for the match p850 with windows98. Here is part of the debug file for one of the games. You can see that list(second) started it's calculations only after a big delay. 6004900 >second: level 40 1 0 6004900 >second: post 6004900 >second: hard 6004900 >second: easy 6004900 >second: force 6004900 >first : computer 6004900 >second: computer 6004900 >first : black 6004900 >first : time 6000 otim 6000 6004900 >first : white 6004900 >first : go 6004950 <first : tellics kibitz hello from Movei book 6004950 <first : move a2a4 6004950 >second: time 6000 otim 5995 6004950 >second: a2a4 6004950 >second: black 6004950 >second: go 6006110 <second: 1 35 0 0 g8f6 6007040 <second: 1 59 60 0 e7e6 6007040 <second: 1 59 60 0 e7e6 6007040 <second: 2 23 60 0 e7e6 e2e3 6007040 <second: 2 23 60 0 e7e6 e2e3 6007040 <second: 3 48 60 0 e7e6 d2d4 d7d5 6007040 <second: 3 51 60 0 d7d5 d2d4 c8g4 6007040 <second: 3 51 60 0 d7d5 d2d4 c8g4 6007040 <second: 4 23 66 0 d7d5 d2d4 c8g4 c1g5 6007040 <second: 4 24 66 1 e7e6 e2e3 f8b4 f1c4 6007040 <second: 4 36 66 1 e7e5 g1f3 d7d6 e2e3 6007040 <second: 4 36 66 1 e7e5 g1f3 d7d6 e2e3 6007040 <second: 5 43 71 6 e7e5 d2d4 e5e4 c1f4 d7d5 6007040 <second: 5 43 71 8 e7e5 d2d4 e5e4 c1f4 d7d5 6007040 <second: 6 32 77 16 e7e5 d2d4 e5d4 d1d4 d7d5 d4e5 c8e6 e2e3 6007040 <second: 6 32 77 24 e7e5 d2d4 e5d4 d1d4 d7d5 d4e5 c8e6 e2e3 6007150 <second: 6007150 <second: move e7e5 Interrupting first 6007150 >first : time 5995 otim 5780 6007150 >first : e7e5 6007320 <first : 1 -16 0 35 b1c3 6007320 <first : 2 -48 0 91 b1c3 f8c5 6007320 <first : 2 -47 0 121 e2e4 6007320 <first : 2 -39 0 150 e2e4 f8c5 6007320 <first : 2 -39 0 220 e2e4 f8c5 6007370 <first : 3 -7 0 465 e2e4 f8c5 f1c4 6007370 <first : 3 -7 0 609 e2e4 f8c5 f1c4 6007370 <first : 4 -29 6 986 e2e4 f8c5 f1c4 b8c6 6007370 <first : 4 -29 6 1558 e2e4 f8c5 f1c4 b8c6 6007370 <first : 5 -7 6 4568 e2e4 b8c6 f1c4 d8g5 g2g4 6007370 <first : 5 -6 11 8066 d2d4 6007370 <first : 5 -3 11 11361 d2d4 b8c6 d4d5 c6d4 b1c3 6007370 <first : 5 -3 11 11575 d2d4 b8c6 d4d5 c6d4 b1c3 6007370 <first : 6 -18 17 20662 d2d4 b8c6 g1f3 e5d4 f3d4 f8b4 b1c3 b4c3 b2c3 6007590 <first : 6 -18 28 29243 d2d4 b8c6 g1f3 e5d4 f3d4 f8b4 b1c3 b4c3 b2c3 6008190 <first : 7 1 66 77014 d2d4 b8c6 d4d5 c6d4 c2c3 d4f5 g1f3 6008190 <first : 7 1 71 83228 d2d4 b8c6 d4d5 c6d4 c2c3 d4f5 g1f3 6008190 <first : tellics kibitz book 6008190 <first : move d2d4 Interrupting second 6008190 >second: time 5780 otim 5891 6008190 >second: d2d4 6009240 <second: 1 1 0 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 1 23 0 0 b8c6 6009400 <second: 1 35 6 0 f8b4 b1c3 6009400 <second: 1 35 6 0 f8b4 b1c3 6009400 <second: 2 13 6 0 f8b4 c2c3 b4d6 6009400 <second: 2 23 6 0 b8c6 d4e5 6009400 <second: 2 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 2 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 3 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 3 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 4 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 4 32 11 0 e5d4 6009400 <second: 5 35 11 7 e5d4 d1d4 b8c6 d4d1 f8b4 c2c3 b4c5 6009400 <second: 5 35 17 14 e5d4 d1d4 b8c6 d4d1 f8b4 c2c3 b4c5 6009400 <second: 6 25 28 32 e5d4 d1d4 b8c6 d4e4 f8e7 b1c3 g8f6 e4d3 6009400 <second: 6 28 33 53 e5e4 c1f4 d7d5 e2e3 f8b4 c2c3 b4e7 6009400 <second: 6 28 39 66 e5e4 c1f4 d7d5 e2e3 f8b4 c2c3 b4e7 6009790 <second: 6009790 <second: move e5e4 Uri
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