Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 12:09:02 03/24/99
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On March 23, 1999 at 01:05:22, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Ernst Walet on March 22, 1999 at 16:12:00: > >> >>Dear Ed, >> >>I have two additional questions. >> >>1. Shouldn't you give the 266MHz/64MB machines a longer time control to >>make up for the speed difference with the 450MHz/128MB PC's? > >One game already takes one week average to finish. > You're right, but maybe giving the 450MHz machine somewhat lesser time, and the 266MHZ machines somwhat more could do the trick. > >>2. It looks like you use auto232 for these games, does this mean that >>you have solved the problems with auto232? > >No I don't have solved the problem. In fact I have dropped all DOS >auto232 testing to improve Rebel. I will try again with the Windows >version because the free auto232 Windows code looks much more >reliable than its older DOS brother. > >I still don't have a clue what's going on with the DOS auto232 driver. I >have a long list of suspect things that proof something is very wrong. > >The final knock came a few weeks ago when Rebel10c played an >auto232 match against Mchess8, level 40/40. To my astonishment >Rebel scored 19-2 which made me very suspicious as this simply >is unreal. > >I was just going to abort this match because of the silly result when >my eye felt on the board position of the last game. Since Rebel10's >automatic annotation was on I noticed the two "??" on Mchess8 last >move given by Rebel. > >When I took back the last move Rebel showed a draw score and >then the next move a +5.xx score. Have a look at the game yourself >and notice that 45.Ke1??? is a horrible blunder that loses immediately. > >When I logged off of auto232 and started Mchess8 manually there is >NO sign of 45.Ke1 and when I force 45.Ke1 Mchess8 sees a +7.xx >score immediately. > >The fact such a thing can happen made me drop all auto232 testing. >As for CHESS 2010 I have to use auto232. After each game I reboot >the machines and hope for the best. > >Ed Schroder > Very weird, and I'm wondering why in all these years no one else has noticed this. Ernst-J.
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