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Subject: Re: A little "bug" in Glaurung 1.0

Author: F. Huber

Date: 15:48:34 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 16:54:55, Keith Hyams wrote:

>On January 13, 2006 at 16:13:44, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2006 at 15:34:40, Keith Hyams wrote:
>>
>>>On January 13, 2006 at 13:03:20, F. Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 13, 2006 at 11:20:48, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri just informed me on the Winboard Forum that I've made a
>>>>>small mistake in Glaurung 1.0:  The "Static pruning depth" parameter
>>>>>was supposed to have a default value of 2, but I have accidentally
>>>>>chosen the value 1 instead.  I recommend changing the value to 2
>>>>>for serious tests and tournaments.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is not extremely important.  In fact, I am still not 100% sure
>>>>>that Static pruning depth = 2 is better than 1.  More tests are needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tord
>>>>
>>>>Just an information:
>>>>
>>>>If anyone wants this change (from 1 to 2) permanently in the EXE-file, then
>>>>simply edit the byte 21870hex from 31hex to 32hex in ´glaurung.exe´ ...
>>>>
>>>>Franz.
>>>
>>>Franz,
>>>I did what you said:- downloaded a hex editor (HN_Hex-Ed), changed the byte
>>>21870 and it did the trick. Please tell me how you found byte 21870hex......
>>>                                 Keith
>>
>>Hi Keith,
>>
>>well, I just looked for the UCI options in the EXE (of course also with a
>>hex editor), and a few bytes after these names there are some numbers which
>>seemed to be what I´ve searched for. ;-)
>>So the ´trick´ is just a bit experience, some guessing and/or luck, and the
>>last thing is trying if it works ...
>>
>>But as I wrote in my follow-up: unfortunately this has the side-effect of also
>>changing the MultiPV default value, so it wasn´t really a good idea.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Franz.
>
>Thank you Franz I wondered for a minute whether you had found an interesting
>piece of software........

No, this ´software´ is in my brain! ;-)

Franz.




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