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Subject: Re: Winboard-->Chessbase adapter

Author: José Carlos

Date: 01:10:13 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 03:48:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 05, 2000 at 03:33:24, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know how much a winboard engine is weakened when you run it through
>>chessbase with the Winboard adapter?
>
>Some Winboard adapters (I don't know exactly which ones) send a reset after each
>move.  That effectively kills pondering.  It is about like a 50% time penalty.
>I suggested to counteract this that Winboard programs could have a "paranoid"
>mode where they simply ignore the reset command.  Just keep on pondering and if
>the new move does not fit, *then* worry about a reset.

  The uglyest problem of reseting the game after each move is that it clears the
hash tables. This takes some seconds if tables are big (wich kills the program
at fast levels) and make useless previous searchs (including pondering).
  As far as I know, there is no winboard adapter that doesn't do this (if it
exists, pleas tell me!).

  José C.

• Re: How about a Chessbase-->Winboard adapter? Pete Galati 05:07:41 02/05/00

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