Author: William Penn
Date: 07:05:42 03/04/05
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On March 04, 2005 at 09:56:51, William Penn wrote: >On March 04, 2005 at 04:23:01, Eric Somao wrote: > >>I ve noticed my Deep Shredder 9 program always closes suddenly without reason >>and without error message in endgames, when the TBS 5men are working hard, in >>general when it's an endgame with rooks and pawns... >> >> >>Does someone else meet the same problem? >> >>Thx ! >> >>Eric > >I don't have Deep Shredder 9. Perhaps it has a bug in that situation, I don't >know. But another possibility is that you could have a bad installation or a >system problem. So first, I would redownload/reinstall the software. Also, >Windows can develop faults over time and only a clean fresh reinstall of the op >system can determine whether that's the cause. I'm afraid SP2 introduced some >problems in many systems running Windows XP so certain software won't work >correctly. I've had that experience. > >And I don't know if this is relevant, but will mention it... > >After long use of Shredder 8, I became convinced that it had some kind of >special weakness in endgames involving active rook play and pawns. It just >couldn't find the right move. I think it had something to do with pawn levers >and inability to see how to open a semi-closed position to advantage. I often >had to resort to Fritz in such cases, which usually confirmed my suspicions. >WP Also, be sure to monitor your hardware temperatures. When chess software is calculating with near 100% processor usage and lots of hard drive access of tablebases, things can get too hot. That can cause the system to stop working by tripping a fail-safe mechanism somewhere. I had to put a couple of extra fans in my computer case to keep it cool enough. If you don't have a temperature monitoring utility, try Computer-Sensor in the Everest freeware at http://www.lavalys.com/ WP
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