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Subject: Re: Game history + length of string clash in Crafty 19.10?

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 11:36:07 02/11/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 11:55:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 10, 2004 at 17:57:27, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>Hello Paul,
>>
>>I am afraid that I was _not_ really interested in the match scores this time but
>>solely in Crafty's behaviour under Winboard after a game that lasted for over
>>240 moves and which seemed to have upset Crafty completely.  If your reread my
>>post you will surely see that I did not emphasize the result at all. Besides,
>>you played with Ruffian 2.0.0 and I actually used a beta of a "new" Ruffian
>>2.0.0 that fixed the null move problem mentioned by R. Flesher.
>>
>>About your own results:  I did read your previous posts and even got your games
>>stashed away in my Ruffian directory :-)
>>
>>Djordje
>
>
>I can only suggest you play with the -xreuse option to make sure that a new copy
>of crafty is used for each new game.  I'm not aware of any such problem as you
>are describing, but that doesn't mean one does not exist...


Already did that.  However, it is somewhat of a rarity to have a game over 200
moves so I can't know right now whether the -xreuse will fix the observed
phenomenon.






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