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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