Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 03:42:04 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 05:47:43, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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 Good, I feel a great relief :-) Please be careful with autoplayer matches with the commenting module switched on as Shredder is much slower then. Note that the module is switches on by default! The speed of your computer seems normal for Shredder to me. Stefan > >>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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