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Subject: Re: Program bug or Autoplayer woes?

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 12:15:30 11/14/99

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On November 13, 1999 at 03:27:19, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On November 12, 1999 at 21:15:47, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On November 12, 1999 at 20:46:47, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On November 12, 1999 at 20:27:45, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 12, 1999 at 11:54:32, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 12, 1999 at 04:01:39, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 12, 1999 at 02:00:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On November 11, 1999 at 20:18:18, Howard Exner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>><<SNIP>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm sure happy to 'hear' that's fixed.  I'm waiting impatiently :-)  for Chess
>>>>Tiger to hit the streets.  By the way, I got a glimpse of it on FICS and it is
>>>>impressive.  It seems like people/computers were standing in line to play it.
>>>>Jim Walker
>>>
>>>Oops... I thought this was a non-public experiment.
>>>
>>>We are just stress-testing the beta version. The goal is just to let it play
>>>several weeks in a row to check if everything runs smoothly (the engine, the GUI
>>>and the Internet Chess Servers automatic management)...
>>>
>>>I'm not in charge of this experiment, so I don't even know what the result is
>>>sofar. I mean in win, draws and losses. For the reliability part, I know that
>>>the product has been running perfectly well since it has been connected (several
>>>days ago IIRC).
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>It's hard to get on FICS and not be noticed.  At any given time there are only a
>>handfull of computers playing there.  I played Chess Tiger using Fritz/Hiarcs
>>combination.  The first game went about 160 moves and something went wrong.  I
>>was never sure if it was my hardware or the other guy.  Anyway the game was a
>>book draw but I could not get a draw agreed to or even flag the game since both
>>clocks expired.  I finally resigned the game so I could try another one.
>>I'm still waiting. :-)
>>Jim Walker
>
>Maybe Lex (who is doing these experiments) decided that he needed the computer
>for some other test...
>
>Maybe he was there and has seen that your draw offer was not accepted and has
>decided to change something...
>
>I don't know exactly.
>

The interface just does not accept draws :(
It's on my list of things to do.
The connection sometimes got dropped, it does not restart until I manually
reconnect. And am not monitoring it 24/hr day.
Anyway it has been running for 7 days whithout problems :)
Feel free to try it. One more thing it runs on very modest hardware
a P233 , and on low priority. But still results are very good.

Lex






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