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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