From: Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...> - 2006-10-07 12:07:53
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Denis J Navas wrote: > I use set up board. Clean the board. After that I set up the pieces. > > I suggest to check if SCID is using TCL/TK 8.5 Since I use it with windows, > both dll's resides in the program's directory (or folder). > I'm actually using TCL_VERSION = 8.3 I've made significant progress on this problem. First I should state I am not using Windows, but scid and crafty on a Sun workstation (Sun Ultra 80 with 4 x 450 MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs and 4 GB RAM). a) Several crafty versions tested including 17.x and 18.x work OK with scid 3.6,1 a) Crafty 19.0 (dated 09/25/02) works too. b) Crafty 19.1 (dated 09/25/02, same date as version 19.0) again works OK. c) Crafty versions 19.2, 19.5 and 19.7 will not compile on my Sun, due to the fact Pause() is not defined. (I assume those in between wont either, but I've not tested) d) Crafty version 19.8 (dated 12/26/03) works fine with scid. e) Crafty version 19.9 (dated 01/05/04) works with scid 3.6.1 *until* the end game table base position is reached. Then the scid/crafty combo hangs with "Thinking". It just stays thinking forever. f) All versions of crafty >= 19.9 hang as soon as the table base positions are reached (i.e. there are only 5 pieces on the board). So there seems to be something that changed between crafty versions 19.8 (dated 12/26/03) and crafty 19.9 (dated 01/05/04). scid 3.6.1 is dated 3/3/04, so was produced at the time version 19.8 of crafty existed, but before 19.9 was released. I'm going to contract Robert Hyatt and ask if he has changed the format of crafty's output in any way. Is Shane is still around on the mailing list? If so, could he look at any issues that might occur on Sun SPARC with crafty versions >=19.9? I can give anyone remote access to a Sun if they think they might be able to see what is wrong. I know C, but have no knowledge of C++, Tcl or Tck. -- Dr. David Kirkby |