Author: Harald Faber
Date: 22:31:41 10/03/99
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On October 03, 1999 at 15:09:43, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Harald Faber on October 03, 1999 at 05:22:14: >> >>I will look at it. >>The Shredder game looks ok but needs further games to check. >>At the moment my laptop is busy so I cannot give the information about the >>config.sys and autoexec.bat at the moment. > >>For Ed solving the problem: I don't think he will do since Rebel CP is next >>Rebel version and running on Windows so no need to find out the DOS problems. > >You are right. I am not in the mood to spend one minute longer of my time on >auto232. If it is a pure DOS problem has to be seen. There is no single >evidence pointing in that direction. > >>What astonishes me is that there don't seem to be many interested in this >>topic. > >There is. But think of the consequences. The reliability of auto-playing is on >stake here. Auto-playing is used to measure the strength of chess programs. >90% of games published here and elsewhere comes from auto232. Imagine >we drop auto232. We would return to the dark ages. Horrible view to look for. I know. :-( >>Right now I think there are 2 possibilities what causes the programs play >>strange with auto232: >>1) DOS program >>2) Nimzo7.32 autoplayer which would let me suspect that the other CB products >>produce the same behaviour, Fritz5, Junior5, Nimzo99 and Hiarcs7.32. But it >>will take time to find this out. > >You will have a very hard (and long) time to proof that. Note that the case you >described only occurred to me twice (as far as I can tell of course). I claim >you aren't able to reproduce the Rebel case you had. It happens rarely and is >IMO not reproducible. >Ed Maybe it is. Recently I read that it shall have to do with programs with dynamic tablebase access like Nimzo has. So maybe another try will show me the same behaviour. But I need time which I haven't got. :-(
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