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Subject: Re: 'Convenient' ChessBase bug handicapping UCI engines

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 04:32:36 09/29/03

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On September 29, 2003 at 07:02:04, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On September 29, 2003 at 04:03:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>It seems that the ChessBase UCI support contains a rather 'convenient' bug
>>that severely handicaps UCI engines when playing tournaments under the
>>ChessBase interface:
>>
>>An extract from Deep Sjeng's logs:
>>
>>First game:
>>
>>< setoption name Hash value 128
>>Allocated 4194304 hash entries, totalling 134217728 bytes, in shared memory.
>>
>>All subsequent games:
>>
>>< setoption name Hash value 1
>>Allocated 32768 hash entries, totalling 1048576 bytes, in shared memory.
>>
>>So, they basically disable hashing for UCI engines after the first game.
>
>Oh, my God.  This is horrible.  How widely known is this bug?
>
>My engine slows down by about 50% when I limit the hash table size to 1MB.
>
>Tord

Yes, if this is really true a lot of testing would be meaningless.

There are many questions:
Are only tournaments affected or also engine matches?
UCI.dll version used?
Does it happen also with older versions of UCI.dll?
...

Michael



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