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Subject: Re: Averno 0.70 under Arena 1.1 Pre-Release, log file ...

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 04:36:51 11/04/04

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On November 04, 2004 at 07:02:56, José Carlos wrote:

Hi Jose,

>  Sorry I forgot the version of Arena. Ver 1.092.
>  The problem happens seldom. Maybe one in 50 games. And not only to my program.
>I've seen Arena hung when loading Movei and Gandalf, and maybe others, but I
>don't recall now. First time I saw the problem, I studied Averno's logs because
>I have all the I/O there.

Believe me:
I have played more as 30.000 games with Arena Chess GUI on my system. A lot with
Movei, Gandalf and I don't saw the problem you have written.

I see the following problem:
Each 200 games, or each 300 games I see that one engine loosed on time. Every
time an other engine so I have a big problem to find out the problem. The reason
could be that we have a lot of processes, load and unload engines for an
example.

WinBoard don't have the problem because no persons have running a tourney with
300 games without to load WinBoard on more times. With batch files only an hand
full user are working.

Volker Annuss write about it and find out a lot. Martin optimize the GUI in the
lastest weeks, Martin optimize the GUI after he make a lot of changes again and
again.

>  On the other hand, I see no problem in my other computer (win 2k, single
>processor, ponder off), so I guess it's either related to OS or (most probably)
>ponder on. I also want to note that this happens far more often when I use
>nunn-like test games than normal games from the starting position.

In ATL (ponder = ON) I am playing ... if I visit with debug windows ... to find
out problems.

Possible what you write here, why not but if so not easy to find out. And no
other of around 20-30 programmers which give us support from time to time
reported such a problem at the moment.

>  If you or Martin want me to do some specific test and send log files, just
>email me with the instructions. I'll try to help.

Fantastic!
You are welcome!

If you like you can test Arena 1.1 Pre-Release.
I will send the version to you.
Fr@nk-Qy.info

>  José C.

Thanks for your comment!
Each possible bug message is important to make the GUI better.
And I am not a programmer and haven't (will not have) the understanding for much
technical detail because I must have other important things in my brain, all is
not possible and a really good expert have a special topic :-)

And my most important topic is to make a good animation since years in computer
chess area. Herre I have success with millions of hits on the webpages I am
working. For different persons a bad or a good animation, I can't make 100%
lucky because today we have to many groups of persons with different interest.
Much more easy for around 4-5 years.

If other programmers give us more helps we can make much more in the future.

Best
Frank



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