Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 13:57:51 12/09/04
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On December 09, 2004 at 15:37:21, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>A while back I upgraded to Arena 1.0 Build 1650. I started noticing occasional
>time losses. Had it just been Bruja I would have figured I broke something, but
>the same was happening with other engines which I know have good time
>management. On investigating, the problem seems to be with Arena. Following
>are the last 2 moves of a Bruja vs Bruja game and the logs of both:
>
>[Event "Std_opp"]
>[Site "DHONEYCUTT"]
>[Date "2004.12.09"]
>[Round "9"]
>[White "Bruja_x0"]
>[Black "Bruja_x1"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "C39"]
>[Opening "KGA"]
>[Time "11:46:35"]
>[Variation "Kieseritsky, Berlin Defence"]
>[TimeControl "40/240:40/240:40/240"]
>[Termination "time forfeit"]
>[PlyCount "79"]
>[WhiteType "program"]
>[BlackType "program"]
>
>[snip]
>38.bxc5 b5 39.Re8+ Kf7 {0-1 White forfeits on time} 0-1
>
>================== Bruja_x0 (White) log
>[input]time 2250
>[input]otim 3192
>[input]d4c5
>[clock] mv num=38 tm mode=5 remain=2250 allow=750 abort=1125
>[think] nodes=2996468 move=b4xc5 score=-480
>move b4c5
>[input]time 1548
>[input]otim 1988
>[input]b6b5
>[clock] mv num=39 tm mode=5 remain=1548 allow=774 abort=774
>[think] nodes=3750200 move=Rc8-e8 score=-390
>move c8e8
>[input]?
>[input]result 0-1
>[input]?
>[input]force
>[input]quit
>[exit] status=0
>
>================== Bruja_x1 (Black) log
>[input]time 3192
>[input]otim 1548
>[input]b4c5
>[clock] mv num=38 tm mode=5 remain=3192 allow=1064 abort=1596
>[think] nodes=5738122 move=b6-b5 score=358
>move b6b5
>[input]time 1988
>[input]otim 773
>[input]c8e8
>[clock] mv num=39 tm mode=5 remain=1988 allow=994 abort=994
>[think] nodes=4595891 move=Ke6-f7 score=381
>move e6f7
>[input]?
>[input]result 0-1
>[input]?
>[input]force
>[input]quit
>[exit] status=0
>
>Going back and forth between the two logs shows:
>Move 38W: time left white=22.5 sec, black=31.92 sec. white moves b4c5
>Move 38B: time left white=15.48 sec, black=31.92 sec. black moves b6b5
>Move 39W: time left white=15.48 sec, black=19.88 sec. white moves c8e8
>Move 39B: time left white=7.73 sec, black=19.88 sec. black moves e6f7
>
>Now white, who still has nearly 8 seconds on his clock, never receives blacks
>move e6f7. The next thing to come in is the 0-1 result.
>
>Anyone else having similar problems or can think of something I might have done
>wrong? Hardware is Athlon XP2000+, 1.66GHz, 512MB. OS is XP Pro 2002 Service
>Pack 1.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dan H.
Sometimes I have timelosses in Arena but usually in short time controls. I will
post your bugreport there, since you do not want to register.
regards Joachim
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