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Subject: Re: New version of GromitChess

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 13:33:05 01/05/99

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On January 05, 1999 at 02:33:29, Frank Schneider wrote:

>On January 04, 1999 at 15:06:09, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 1999 at 03:24:19, Frank Schneider wrote:
>>
>>>On January 03, 1999 at 08:09:40, Frank Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all and a happy new year!
>>>>
>>>>GromitChess 2.1 is now available at
>>>>http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/index.htm
>>>>
>>>>It is at least 50 Elo stronger than 2.0!
>>>>The main reason for this is that a serious bug in the moveordering
>>>>was fixed and many parts of the search were optimized.
>>>>You find testresults of the new version on the homepage.
>>>>
>>>>There were also some minor changes to the evaluation, the XBoard-interface
>>>>and readme.txt.
>>>>
>>>>Frank
>>>I just realized that there may be a problem when Gromit runs under Windows
>>>using the (old) cygwinb19.dll instead of a new cygwin1.dll (which must be
>>>renamed to cygwinb19.dll).
>>>The memorymanagement of the dll seems to be broken, therefore Gromit can
>>>only allocate small hashtables.
>>>
>>>You find the dll at
>>>http://www.cygnus.com
>>>
>>>Frank
>>
>>What is are the cygwin dlls? I have seen several programs that require them.
>>
>>James
>Cygnus (http://www.cygnus.com) offers some Unix development tools for Windows.
>Some programmers who work under Unix/Linux use the tools to
>compile their programs for Windows. The dll's provide a kind of mapping
>between the Unix api and the Windows api, making it easier to localize a
>program to windows.
>
>
>Frank

I went to the site you suggested and it is very confusing about the actual file
that we need to download.
--
Komputer Korner



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