Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 00:11:28 09/23/03
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On September 23, 2003 at 01:58:29, William Penn wrote: >What GUI are you using for the games? > >I ran a few engine v engine tournaments awhile back and discovered some >pitfalls. I believe that the native engine will usually win such tournaments. So >if you use the Hiarcs 9 GUI, it will probably beat everything else. But if you >use the Shredder 7 GUI, then it will probably beat everything else. So I think a >"neutral" GUI is needed to be sure that one of them isn't getting some kind of >unfair advantage built into the GUI. > >Someone mentioned that the windows selection can play a part too. If you click >on a particular window with the mouse, so it is highlighted (selected), then and >it will get more processor time. That's how the Windows op system works. It >gives more processor time to highlighted/selected tasks. > >You probably know about such things much better than me, just thought I'd pass >them along FWIW. >WP Quite creative about the "Bias Native GUI" -- but bullshit nevertheless. Well, now that I think about it, wait a minute... One time when I ran an engine match between Hiarcs and Shredder in the Fritz GUI Shredder won by a landslide. Now that I think about it, it is probably because Frans knows Stefan better than he knows Mark, so the GUI naturally helps Shredder out. -elc.
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