Author: William Penn
Date: 19:29:23 02/07/05
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On February 07, 2005 at 17:12:19, Bernardo Wesler wrote: >Thx Stefan! I'm still putting it through the paces and will reserve judgement for a week or two. I've been using the CB GUI for a long time and it will take awhile to get used to something different. The thing I miss most in the Classic GUI is the database capabilities of the CB GUI. For example there's no way to search databases for a position in the Classic GUI. So I'll be using both GUIs, probably simultaneously. It looks like it works OK to set the CB GUI to a small hash size (4MB), turn off tablebase access, etc. and just use it's database functions, while simultaneously using the Classic GUI for analysis. The feature of the Classic GUI that stands out for me is the ability to limit an analysis to a particular set of chosen moves, or to a set which excludes certain moves. That's really gonna be a big help for serious analysis. So for example you know for sure there are only 3 candidate moves worth considering, you can set it to analyze that way. I haven't explored the online TB access yet but that's potentially a valuable thing too. There's no other way I could possibly obtain or access 6-man TBs with my dialup modem. I'm finding a few quirks. Most serious is that my computer gets very sluggish, more than it should, when the Classic GUI is running. It's significantly more sluggish than with the CB GUI. Fortunately there's an easy fix - manually lower the engine's process priority to "BelowNormal" via Windows Task Manager. There doesn't seem to be any way to do this with a startup shortcut containing special command switches, like I was able to do with Shredder 8 in the CB GUI. WP
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