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Subject: Re: How's Movei doing against Woodpusher?

Author: Daniel Shawul

Date: 09:52:50 07/06/04

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On July 06, 2004 at 12:34:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 06, 2004 at 10:58:36, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>The game at playchess.com only shows moves up until 6.
>>
>>Sargon
>
>draw is the final result.
>I had problems with arena and the computer crashed few times during the game.
>Computers showed no signal and later I saw nothing on the screen and I had to
>restart.
>
>I do not know if a crash of software can cause things like this because movei
>crashed many times during the developement because of a bug and it never
>happened and a crash of one application did not lead to a crash of all the
>system.
>
>I am not sure if arena is the problem but it is a possibility and I consider to
>use movei in console mode in the next rounds inspite of the fact that I do not
>like it.
>
>arena and winboard were tested much in engine-engine games but they were not
>tested much in playing games manually and there may be more bugs.
>
>I am also angry about arena that it did not show movei draw claim by 3 time
>repetition in the way movei claim it and it simply showed 3 fold repetition
>decleration.
>
>I thought that only Fritz shows bad behaviour by these claims even when the
>engine claims nothing but it seems that the same is for Arena.
>Note that movei claimed the draw and it can be seen in it's logfile but movei
>claim was not written in the arena interface and another claim was written.
>
>winboard does not support the time control of the tournament so I also do not
>like to use it so it seems that the only option that I have inspite of the fact
>that I dislike it is to use movei in console mode and to change somethings
>there.

   I advice the console mode. You just have to be careful that you make the
   correct moves besides movie will be a bit faster with out the gui. also
   you can give exact time controls
   Btw, congrats on the result so far.

   best
   daniel
   P.s: couldn't find the pgn against woodpusher.

>
>I am not sure what I am going to do in the next round and I will decide between
>winboard with even less time (115 minutes per game) or console mode.
>
>Uri



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