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Subject: Re: Rebel 12 problems

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:19:48 10/06/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 02:57:23, Tony Werten wrote:

>On October 05, 2003 at 18:03:26, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2003 at 15:06:28, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>I have played near 150 games on FICS and ICC with the new Rebel 12, and it
>>>constantly loses on time. The problem is the interface and the server are out of
>>>sync somehow. In games where the engine stops moving, it recieves a different
>>>move played in the game window than what was actually played, thus the engine
>>>thinks there is a different position on the board than what is actually there.
>>>
>>>I have seen this in almost all the games.
>>>
>>>No other engine is affected by this though. Chess Tiger, and Deep Sjeng play
>>>without fail...
>>>
>>>What could be causing this? I have the full download version, and it was a new
>>>installation, no previous version of ChessPartner was installed. I am using
>>>Windows XP Professional (bug existed on Windows 2000 as well).
>>>
>>>Ed.. any response?
>>
>>
>>Peter,
>>
>>The case is under investigation, it will take some time.
>
>FWIW I had a problem in XiniX that showed itself in the same way.
>
>The problem was that the console wasn't thread safe. I was writing from
>different places to the console at the same time.
>
>Solution was to encapsulate the actual writing function with a critical section.
>
>BTW anything you paint on the screen isn't threadsafe either so that should have
>an "entercriticalsection" as well.

Hi Tony,

I will forward and discuss this with Lex. Thanks for the hint.

My best,

Ed



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