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Subject: Re: i am not a paranoid person, really, but what about fritz9 gui?

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 15:19:43 01/22/06

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On January 22, 2006 at 17:46:33, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Joseph,
>
>in fact there is a little difference between how chessbase native engines are
>handled and uci-engines are handled. But this is not the fault of chessbase,
>it's simply windows. You know, usually Windows is set to prefer foreground
>application. Natives are part of the GUI, so in fact they are the foreground
>application. UCI-engines instead are loaded as a seperated .exe and became
>background applications. Therefor when running with ponder=on on a single CPU
>system the native will get more CPU time (I believe a lot people have reported
>that already).

But this mean also that if a third process is using resources on the system is
takes away more CPU time from the UCI engine than from the Chessbase native
engine, doesn't it?

regards
Andy



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