Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:26:54 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 08:30:23, blass uri wrote: >On September 29, 1999 at 03:14:06, Ed Schröder wrote: ><snipped> >>#1. In rare cases I have seen Rebel's NPS drop with a factor of 3 during >>an auto232 match. Thus playing a match on a PII-450 the machine at some >>moment in the auto232 match the PC Rebel was running suddenly behaved >>as a PII-150 machine. The factor 3 is remarkable because it is an indication >>it smells to hardware and not to software. > >The question is >if the same thing does not happen practically rarely in games played manually > >The only way to know is to check hundreds of games played manually. > ><snipped> >>#4. I have seen Rebel (and other programs) play moves that couldn't be >>reproduced while Rebel is programmed to do so. I have not much of such >>cases but the fact it happens isn't a funny thought as you don't have >>the time to check every auto232 move. > >Again the same question. > >Uri I can answer that. Crafty would hang in every game played where it started probing tablebases. It would occasionally play a move that was not in the log file. IE the log would say it played move X, but in the game from the other program, the move was Y. It _never_ does this using winboard/xboard playing on ICC. After tens of thousands of games...
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