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Excellent suggestion. I think time may have been the issue, but I'll keep that tool around; It seems like it could be very useful.

I don't have access to the actual PGN for the game as of now...

I only had the PGN from when I connected to when I left, which started at move #73.... and the move in which I threw the game was around 6-8 moves later.... Very likely that it was the #80th move, making a time issue likely.

Hmm... I have ZERO clue why I am returning alpha instead of 'value. I have no memory of paying a great deal of attention to that section of the program. I'll run a test without that, see if I find any ELO gains

I think that is probably more of a problem with the Engines you are using, not Arena itself.

That said, I recall seeing that often when I would play games between MicroMax4.8 and Ethereal6.XX.

Hmm... some of that sounds promising, some not so much. look at time out. Was an incomplete hash score saved somewhere after an abort search? Don't think this is the answer. Before storing entries I check the current time vs the cut-off time, always look at changes in game phase that might effect sc...

I was watching Ethereal play a game in one of Graham's tournaments. When I began watching Ethereal had a +10.00 evaluation, with Greko having a -10.00. Before the game ended I left my computer, and came back to a loss! I tracked down the PGN and found the position in which the game was lost. 2r5/8/8...

Can anyone get the Linux releases to work? Tried it on three different systems now to no avail

Thanks!

I could really use a win32 compile, including whatever dlls are needed. I've made my own linux32 compile, but can't seem to make one for windows.

Still have some win32 machines in my testing cluster.

Thanks, Andrew Grant

Actually, I think that the oppisite is true.

My engine is around ~2500, and Just about every change I make is worth plus or minus 20+ elo points. It is quite easy to determine whether a change is good or bad when the engine is quite poor.