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Subject: Re: Gandalf 6.0 vs Slowchess 60 games Blitz 5min. 38/16/6

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 08:35:39 11/25/04

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On November 25, 2004 at 11:14:35, Günther Simon wrote:

>>>>Someone, I think it was Thorsten, mentioned that they thought SlowChess played
>>>>slower or worse outside its native GUI. Has that been confirmed?
>>>>
>>>>I'm not doubting the validity of the results as Gandalf should win, but just
>>>>wondering about that particular aspect.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Thorsten did not say anything similar to that.
>>
>>Yes, he did.
>>
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?397479
>>
>>He said he used it in the CB GUI and it ran SLOW (his capitalizations, not mine)
>> compared to the native GUI. Looks similar to me. Not identical, but similar. He
>>did speculate it was a CB GUI issue, but wasn't sure.
>>
>
>
>but...
>1) you generalized his problems for all GUIs

No, I made no statements of any kind. I asked about it, which is quite
different.

>2) it was already clear that he made a setup error
>   due to other posts, before you asked for confirmation
>   of his problem

He didn't post any results confirming that was the issue, so the question still
remained as to whether there might not be performance issue. All he said was
that he'd try setting it up differently.

                                           Albert

>
>Guenther
>
>>Actually he just
>>>used an unnecessary adapter for the CB GUI.
>>>I use SlowChess since more than a year in WB and it always played
>>>at full strength.
>>>
>>>Guenther
>>>
>>>http://rwbc.volker-pittlik.name/



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