Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 13:57:25 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 16:44:35, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On June 17, 2005 at 16:22:22, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On June 17, 2005 at 15:52:03, Kaj Soderberg wrote: >> >>>Thank you Ed, >>> >>>Now i can use my old favourite good tactical, and yet positionally sound, engine >>>and compare it with "Silver". >>> >>>By the way, i have noticed that Pro Deo sometimes (not often of course)in the >>>end sort of crashes in analysis mode. The suggested move seems correct and the >>>evaluation too, but in the suggested variation it gives away tons of material >>>for no reason at all and therefore should lose. I found this out at 400 mb hash >>>and then checked it on 200mb to see if it is maybe a hash problem, but the >>>problem still occurs. Rebel 12 did the same (again not often) in analysis mode. >>>In DOS i have never seen this occur. >>> >>>I run the beast under ChessPartner with Intel Centrino at 2ghz end one gig of >>>memory. Any idea what could be the case, or is it just a problem with displaying >>>the right variation? I seem to remember that Thorsten Czub once run into >>>something similar. >> >> >>I occasionally face the same (a crash) under ChessPartner after a long time in >>analysis mode. Annoying indeed and since it is not reproducible I have no idea >>what possibly might be the cause. >> >>Ed > > >Hallo Ed, I think I can report something very similar: > >I have not seen any "sort of crashes" but twice ProDeo 1.1 really crashed on my >computer in analysis mode. Both times it was just before finishing a 24 hour >analysis, so I expect it to be some sort of overflow, of the nodecounters maybe? >Windows terminates Pro Deo and asks to file a report. What I can see in >Dr.Watson's log that comes with Win XP is that both times there occurs a >division by zero. But what exactly gets divided is not clear to me. Thanks Eelco, the "24 hours" item makes me hear all kind of bells ringing. It's perhaps so that after 24 hours the internal clock is set to zero. I must check... Ed
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