Re: Gnu 4.0 is too hasty..

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From: Chua Kong Sian
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 01:07

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Henk Van Wulpen (henk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be) wrote:


: Why does GnuChess make a move after 100 minutes when I chose the option
: <1 move in 999 minutes> ????? I wanted it to find a mate in 6
: but it always stops searching !! This should be considered as a bug, 
: in my opinion.
Its not really.  To get gnu to search forever, use the depth command.
Gnu will then search to the depth specified, no matter how long it takes.

: Another indication that the time control of GnuChess must have bugs in
: it was in the following ICS-match that went between Norm and Gnuchess.

: # xboard game file -- Wed Sep 22 13:52:33 1993
:         Norm vs. gnufour
:         algebraic
"gnufour" on ICS is a beta version of pl63.  Mike is probably experimenting
with some new search extensions (just a guess).  Look at zippy or Hill
for gnufour pl 62.  They do not have this problem.

Kong Sian
-egg on ICS

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