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Subject: Re: Winboard and Arena GUI test !

Author: Ingo Bauer

Date: 23:30:28 01/07/05

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Hi

>If there are nondeterministic single-cpu chess engines, then maybe a better test
>for GUIs would be to use simple, open source engines. Do you think a simple,
>open source engine such as TSCP is more likely to be deterministic?

It might be better, but it will be still there.

>Or does the issue of time cause undeterministic behavior no matter what? i.e.
>maybe a background process (system process, firewall, antivirus, etc.) randomly
>takes enough CPU time away from a chess engine to cause nondeterministic
>behavior?

That is more likely the case but we will never know for sure.

I am doing a lot of testing with some top engines in different GUIs at the
moment and it is a fact that you have a "strange" move from time to time which
is not reproducable.

Bye
Ingo



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