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In article <1992Jun9.035219.23546@nuscc.nus.sg> ccecks@nuscc.nus.sg (Chua Kong Sian) writes:

>
>  Hi.  Well I've played a few matches between Gnuchess 4.0 and ChessMaster
>  3000.  Gnu was running on a DECstation 5000 while ChessMaster 300 was
>  running on a 25MHz 386.  In all the matches that I've played, Gnuchess
>  4.0 gets blasted easily.  All these were at 1 move in 30 seconds.  Gnu
>  4.0 was averating 3000-4000 nodes/sec.  Looks like there could be a bug
>  somewhere.
>

I played some games against Gnuchess 4.0 running on a DECstation 5000 at 
a time limit of 40 moves in 10 minutes and I got the feeling that there 
might be something wrong with it.
In more than one game it seemed not to see even a mate in 1 in situations 
where the mate could be easily avoided by (re-) sacrificing some material. 
I never noticed something like that playing with the older version of
Gnuchess. 
Another point I surprising me was the size of the hashfile which Gnuchess 
created. I wanted to create a 4 MByte hashfile with the -c option and 
started Gnuchess with -c 22 according to the documentation. After some 
minutes it was still busy creating and filling the hashfile which had grown 
to a size of more than 50 MBytes which was still increasing. So I stopped it 
and tried some lower values. I finally arrived at a size of about 5 MBytes 
using -c 17. Has anybody had similar problems?

Thomas Bantel