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Subject: Re: Crafty log files

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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