Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 02:12:03 06/18/05
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On June 18, 2005 at 02:47:08, Kaj Soderberg wrote: >On June 17, 2005 at 16:57:25, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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 >At the speed of my machine, the earliest "crash" i witnessed in the display was >after 15 minutes and 50 seconds. You mention this problem occurs when running in >ChessPartner. Would that suggest that this problem does not occur in other GUIs? I wouldn't know, I exclusively use my DOS version or CP for manual testing. Ed
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