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Subject: Re:

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 01:37:35 12/23/98

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On December 23, 1998 at 04:31:46, Komputer Korner wrote:

>On December 23, 1998 at 04:27:03, Ralph E. Carter wrote:
>
>>On December 23, 1998 at 04:22:28, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On December 23, 1998 at 04:20:25, Ralph E. Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>Do you know that engines under Fritz and Junior have their hashtables cleared
>>>>>>before every move? And that this has a disproportionate effect on those engines
>>>>>>that intelligently save information between moves, like hiarcs and crafty?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If nobody cares about questions such as these, I am leaving.
>>>>>
>>>>>I do not know but if it is the case then it is a bug in Fritz/Junior.
>>>>>
>>>>>It has nothing to do with CM6000 so I do not understand the subject
>>>>>bad bug in CM6000...
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>What do you mean "it is a bug in Fritz/Junior"?
>>>>Just because the results of automated tournaments in Fritz will not be reliable,
>>>>is this a bug?
>>>
>>>Everything not working correctly and/or making your system crash is a bug.
>>>Check your topic again, you wrote s.th. of CM6k but the bug obviously is in
>>>Fritz and/or Junior.
>>
>>Well, if there is an obvious bug in Fritz, I think that is more important, and
>>we should change the title. You are right.
>>
>>Maybe some of our programmers can tell us if this hashtable issue has a
>>disproportionate effect on the engines that save information between moves in
>>the hash table.
>
>The problem is only in implementation of the engines within the Winboard adaptor
>and can be worked around by each engine programmer who has to specially adapt
>his engine to the special commands within the Winboard adaptor.
>
>--
>Komputer Korner

One expert programmer said (I paraphrase): "This is the way all engines have
always worked under Fritz/Junior."
Was this a misstatement?



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