Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:41:15 02/14/05
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On February 14, 2005 at 06:58:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 14, 2005 at 06:51:33, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On February 13, 2005 at 23:58:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On February 13, 2005 at 22:29:52, mike schoonover wrote: >>> >>>>hi peter, >>>>good job at cct7.thank you and zek for all that you did. >>>>i was rather disapointed i could'nt run smarthink due >>>>to technical issues,it would have been fun. >>>>looking foward to cct8. >>>>regards >>>>mike >>> >>> >>>I agree. Ignore the resident naysayer, complainer, whiner, world's foremost >>>authority on everything, world champion chess programmer if it weren't for (a) >>>his book; (b) his computer; (c) his opponents cooking his book; (d) his >>>program bugs; (e) you fill in the current excuse of the day here. The event >>>went pretty smoothly, although I think we need more discussion about _ZERO_ >>>human intervention. Zero means ZERO, not almost-zero. >> >>One thing that may help is not allowing the computer to disconnect from ICC by >>accident during the tournament when the computer is still connected to the >>internet. >> >>There was almost no human intervention in movei games. >>I say almost because in one game against zappa I closed the connection to ICC >>when I did not mean to do it. >> >>I reconnected in a few seconds but movei lost more than a minute of pondering >>time because when it reconnected it did not ponder and waited passively to >>zappa's move(I do not think that losing pondering time changed the result >>against zappa but it is still human intervention). >> >>Uri > >Another thing that may be considered as human intervation is the fact that I >kibitz at ICC or use tell 64 > >I suspect that movei could run slightly faster in case that I avoid kibitzing(I >do not think that there could be a big difference but even being 1% slower >because of kibitzing is human intervation). > >Uri I don't use winboard, but I do use xboard. And from past testing, typing in the ICC window does not result in a measurable speed decrease for Crafty. Not .01% not .001%. Now it is possible that if you just wildly move the mouse around, the mouse interrupts might take up some tiny fraction of the total machine cycles, but not anything measurable or significant enough to effect the game.
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