Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:21:29 10/25/04
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>I had some informative talks with the ChessBase crew. They could not explain the
>phenomenon I addressed but they found the issue interesting enough to do some
>research themselves.
>
>On the issue of Yace and its loss in speed let me quote the words of Mathias
>Feist (with permission) as a whole:
>
>
> Quite some time ago I already wrote an article about that, but I don't
> remember where. I think it may have been some ChessBase Magazine.
>
> It's indeed a problem with processor time distribution. The foreground
> process gets considerably more processor time than the background
> processes.
>
> If you play two Fritz engines against each other, you won't have a
> problem because both are running in the same process. If you are running
> two UCI engines against each other, both have their own process and
> therefor no problems occur either. You have to watch out if you have a
> Fritz and an UCI/Winboard engine playing each other.
>
> Switching the processer time distribution to optimization for background
> processes would work, but generally it's not a good idea. It distributes
> processor time evenly and makes the computer hard to operate.
>
> The UCI engine will be running in the background. Now, if Fritz is in
> the foreground, the Fritz engine will receive more processor time. All
> you have to do is to push the GUI into the background after starting the
> match. The easiest way to do this is to open the task manager and have
> it in the foreground (=title bar blue). Nice thing is that you can
> easily monitor processor time distribution this way, too, because the
> UCI engine appears in the process list together with Fritz.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Best regards
> Mathias Feist
> ChessBase GmbH
>
>=========
>
>If I have understand his words correctly the solution would be to put the match
>directly after it has started on the taskbar.
>
>Cherio,
>
>Ed
I'm not 100% I understood, so correct me if I didn't. The solution is to start
the match _as_soon_ as the GUI is opened? I couldn't quite understand the
foreground comment as the GUI is already in the foreground when you are using
it, so the explanation wasn't clear to me.
Albert
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