Author: Kaj Soderberg
Date: 10:38:03 06/18/05
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On June 18, 2005 at 05:12:03, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 I checked it under Chessbase. No direct crash, but suddenly there was no (new)engine info when reaching a new ply. The new ply was not reported. Maybe it the "crashed". I may downlodad the Shredder interface and check wat the engine does there. I would not mind if you would give the Pro Deo downloadable as a DOS version also. I would use it anyway. Best regards, Kaj
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