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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 probs on chessbase site playchess.com

Author: Norm Pollock

Date: 09:35:17 10/18/04

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On October 18, 2004 at 10:17:53, Barry Culp wrote:

>I am using Shredder 8 on the Chessbase site playchess.com as an engine in
>automated engine vs engine matches. On more than one occasion I have noticed a
>strange phenomena where Shredder is thinking (confirmed by high CPU usage in
>windows task bar) and the engine analysis window appears to freeze for 2-3
>minutes. Other parts of the GUI work just fine. Then suddenly the analysis
>window comes back to life, but Shredder restarts its thinking back at ply 1 !
>Ouch ...losing valuable time. I have lost 2 games this way via timeout.
>
>Any ideas as to what might be causing this ? Happens on two different versions
>of the Chessbase GUI (16 and 19). I am using default Shredder engine options,
>256mb hash tables and endgame table bases. My PC is Win/XP SP2 Dell P4 2.8ghz
>and 1 gb RAM.
>
>Regards
>
>Barry

Barry,
Can you tell me how you set up auto engine v engine matches on playchess. I just
on there yesterday and I'm not used to it yet.

Regards,
Norm



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