Author: Swaminathan
Date: 03:21:58 10/30/05
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On October 30, 2005 at 06:12:19, Igor V. Korshunov wrote: >Hi there! > >Few days ago I have got 80 WildCat games (blitz: game in 10 min) against Ufim >and Delfi under Arena GUI. >There was 5 time loses. > >This was big surprize for me, because WildCat uses very safe time management >scheme for extremal time controls. >WildCat can safely play with something like 'game in 10 seconds'. > >I run Arena myself and start looking for reasons. >Here is the explanation: > >WildCat send to GUI all search info for every ply. >Arena handle this info __VERY__ slowly. >As result WildCat can't make even 30 moves under 'game in 10 sec'. > >I compiled special WildCat version that doesn't send to GUI any search info. >This time it can make above 200 moves with 10 sec time control. >For 'game in 1 sec' specaial compilation of WildCat can make about 40 moves. >This is in accordance with others GUIs: >WinBoard (with disabled 'Animate moving'!!!) and WildCatGUI. > >Now I have a big doubt about Arena useability with blitz time controls. Yes,I agree with you.Arena is incredibly very slow I ran Arena a while ago with 200 games to play and the end result was that the tournament had taken too much time. When I run the same in chessbase,tournament gets finished just normally and perfectly in time. I have reported here that Arena has got severe time management bug,but nobody bothered. >Best wishes, >Igor
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