Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 02:47:43 12/03/99
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I double checked and you are right, it is probably the Comment what introduces the delay. I didn't notice the voice because my spealers are normally switched off. I must have tinkered with the settings yesterday because now all sound options were off and S4 was autoplaying without the delay I mentioned. Enrique >On December 03, 1999 at 04:43:45, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >>On December 02, 1999 at 11:14:22, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On December 02, 1999 at 09:22:52, James T. Walker wrote: >>> >>>>On December 02, 1999 at 06:43:04, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>>> >>>>>First 3 games Rebel-Tiger against Shredder 4. Tiger was on a PII-300 with 64MB >>>>>hashtables and Shredder on a PIII-500 with 128MB hash and Nalimov tablebases. >>>>>With strict chess rules, S4 would have lost the third game on time, given the >>>>>delay I mentioned in another post between playing and transmitting moves. It's >>>>>interesting to see how it manages against a program that is 2.5 times faster in >>>>>tactics. Very fine program this Shredder 4. >>>>> >>>>>Enrique >>>>> >>>> >>>>Hello Enrique, >>>>I missed your other post concerning the delay between transmitting and playing >>>>moves. I'm not sure what you mean by Shredder losing on time. If you are >>>>playing Auto232 games it seems to me that Shredder should only lose if the time >>>>has expired on it's own clock before making the time control. If you mean that >>>>Rebel-Tiger claimed a win on time when Shredder still showed time on it's own >>>>clock then Shredder should not lose because of the delay. Just my opinion of >>>>course. >>>>Jim Walker >>> >>>Shredder 4 has a delay of 7 to 10 seconds from the moment it plays to the moment >>>it transmits the move. During this delay, S4 appears to do nothing at all, but >>>it is as if a player would move without letting the opponent see the move. It >>>must be an innocent bug, but the wasted time is there and applying strict >>>tournament rules it should be added to the clock. I counted the game as the draw >>>that happened on the board, but... >>> >>>Enrique >> >> >>Did you switch off all the new commenting features in Shredder4? > >Yes. Sound, Announce moves and Comment moves are off. > >>I bet you don't have a sound card or speaker installed and Shredder is >>commenting all of his and Tiger's moves. > >I do have sound card and speakers installed. This delay happens also when >Shredder plays on the portable HP, also with Comment, Announce and Sound off. > >> This is the only thing I can think of >>which can cause the delay. If it's true forget all of your results. The >>commenting features "steals" abour 50% cpu time. > >I see a speed of 110 to 120K NPS in the middle game on the PIII-500, and >"computer speed" is 1398. Is this correct? > >Enrique > >>Stefan
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