Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:31:02 03/05/99
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On March 04, 1999 at 22:58:30, James T. Walker wrote: >On March 04, 1999 at 21:15:35, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On March 04, 1999 at 18:00:12, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>>Is it possible to determine if Crafty exceeded the time limit by looking at the >>>log files?? >>>Jim Walker >> >>If Crafty is losing on time there must be something wrong with the >>interface/adapter it's using. For example, Crafty once played 257 moves in a 1 >>minute game before _I_ finally ran out of time (I was just shuffling pieces back >>and forth :). There are certain settings that could cause it to lose on time, >>but I can't imagine it doing so except in very fast games. >> >>Jeremiah > >Hello Jeremiah, >Well I'm certain it is losing on time. I'm using version wcrafty16.5. I've >noticed it stops printing the board after each move around move 68-70. Later it >stops printing the PV's and just prints the move. I don't know is this is done >to conserve time or what. It also starts giving iterative deepening errors in >the log near the end also. I suspect all of this is a bug. I'm going back to >version 16.2 and see if it does the same thing. >Jim Walker The program does 'throttle' log output when low on time, for efficiency reasons (particularly 1 0 games on ICC). Ie it doesn't display the board, nor log any analysis once the target time is under a second per move... But it can play 100 move games in a single second, so it can handle that with no problem...
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