Author: Gregory Owett
Date: 09:18:45 04/16/05
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On April 16, 2005 at 10:29:26, John Brownlee wrote: >Hi Gregory, > >I can provide some other factors which might affect time management under Arena. > >1) I always try to configure every engine with Pondering = OFF. > Some engines have bugs in pondering mode. I have fewer time forfeits under > Arena with pondering off. > >2) I set the Priority for Arena to Low Priority. It seemed that when I used > High Priority, my computer spent too much time on chess and it was very > slow to respond in other applications (email, web surfing, etc.) > >3) I changed my Windows XP setting for automatic updates from > automatic download and install to > automatic download but manual install. > Sometimes the Automatic install was rebooting my PC > during a chess tournament. > >4) I checked some of my larger PGN files today and discovered some > time forfeits that occurred with some engines. > All Time Controls are 40/20 min repeating (40 moves every 20 minutes). > > Unfortunately I detected 1 of 73 tournament games played by Prodeo WB > forfeited on time (to Thinker) after 34 plies. The game was very even > with no advantage for either side. > > I have noticed other time forfeits under Arena that seem to correlate with > certain engines. I do not have all the numbers on the percentage of games > forfeited for each engine listed, but maybe this list will provide a clue > to engine and GUI programmers to solve the time forfeit issue. > > Pharaon - time forfeit 2 times in 141 games: > Pharaon (W) - Zappa (B) 0 - 1 Time Forfeit after 82 plies > Crafty (W) - Pharaon (B) 1 - 0 Time Forfeit after 1 ply > Somehow Arena thought that Pharaon was a human, > and not a program. > SOS - time forfeit 2 times in 140 games: > SOS (W) - Crafty (B) 0 - 1 Time Forfeit after 4 plies > Zappa (W) - SOS (B) 1 - 0 Time Forfeit after 13 plies > > Notice the opponents in both cases were Crafty and Zappa. > Maybe that is significant (or maybe not). > > Also I had frequent time forfeits by Atlas, Aldebaran, > and less frequently by Celes > and 1 time forfeit by Naum in 73 games. Naum was slightly ahead in the game. > Score was Arasan (W) = -0.54 Naum (B) = +0.89. Ply count = 67. > >I hope some of the items listed above may be of help to you and others. > >Regards, >John Hi John, Yes. We can add to the black list some very good engines, like Toga II o.93, Delfi 4.5, Amyan 1.595. I noticed, that under CB there is anyway less crash. "But, that it is already another history." Regards, Gregory
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