Author: blass uri
Date: 01:51:46 11/05/99
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On November 05, 1999 at 03:20:13, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >On November 04, 1999 at 20:18:40, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>It is a shame that none of the programs available today allow you to pause the >>analysis of a game. Let's say you've started analyzing a game, and you want to >>go online. You have to put your program into the background, and dilute the >>strength of the engine (assuming you are not using ply-depth analysis). What >>about a nice little pause/resume button that you can hit before/after you've >>read your e-mail? >> >>The same goes for pausing a game in progress. You should be able to stop the >>program, then come back the next day and finish where you left off... A few >>programs offer a feature like this, but many do not (i.e. they forget the game >>time, or force you to assign a result to the game). >> >>Bob P. > >Why do you want to pause your analysis? Isn't it mych better to continue *and* >be online, read and write mail, etc? There is a simple reason for it. The computer can stop working because of some problem and if it happens you lose all the information. I know that it happened to me some times when I tried to disconnecet from the internet and I needed to use the reset in order to continue to work with the computer. I would like to see an option to save the information in the harddisk every x hours when I can choose x. Uri
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