Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 02:59:22 09/30/03
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On September 30, 2003 at 05:34:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >Apparently, it doesn't always happen. I can fully reproduce it in the original >tournament I had set up, but if I make another similar tournament, things work >as they should. > >I'm afraid this means that even the people claiming things work for them >aren't safe, since it's more or less random (I'm guessing an uninitialized >variable or something like that), and they will get bitten later even though >it seems to work at first. > >Another data point: > >This is how it looks when it works correctly: > >Sjeng: < uci > >id name Deep Sjeng 1.5 >id author Gian-Carlo Pascutto >option name Hash type spin default 165 min 1 max 495 >option name NalimovPath type string default c:\tb\ >option name NalimovCache type spin default 4 min 1 max 495 >option name Ponder type check default true >option name MultiPV type spin default 1 min 1 max 60 >option name CPUs type spin default 1 min 1 max 1 >option name Drawscore (centipawns) type spin default 0 min -75 max 75 >option name Anti Human mode type check default false >option name Personality type string default <empty> >option name Store brain type button >option name Load brain type button >option name Clear Hash type button >uciok >< setoption name Hash value 128 >Allocated 4194304 hash entries, totalling 134217728 bytes, in shared memory. >< setoption name Ponder value false >< setoption name NalimovPath value d:\crafty\tb >< setoption name NalimovCache value 16 >< isready >readyok > >This is how it looks when the bug occurs: > >Sjeng: < uci > >id name Deep Sjeng 1.6Y >id author Gian-Carlo Pascutto >option name Hash type spin default 165 min 1 max 495 >option name NalimovPath type string default c:\tb\ >option name NalimovCache type spin default 4 min 1 max 495 >option name Ponder type check default true >option name MultiPV type spin default 1 min 1 max 60 >option name CPUs type spin default 1 min 1 max 1 >option name Drawscore (centipawns) type spin default 0 min -75 max 75 >option name Anti Human mode type check default false >option name Personality type string default <empty> >option name Store brain type button >option name Load brain type button >option name Clear Hash type button >uciok >< setoption name Hash value 1 >Allocated 32768 hash entries, totalling 1048576 bytes, in shared memory. >< isready >readyok > >Notice that not only is the hash not set, tablebases are disabled too! Also that ponder is true the second time but not the first time. /Peter
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