Suggestions for running fast games with xboard

[ilari]

It would still take over 10 seconds to run a 1 second game, and flags would fall left and right. To run such fast games the whole GUI should be removed.

Where the heck did you get that idea? When I run a match of ten 1+0 games of micro-Max 1.6 against itself under winboard /noGUI, the total match lasts 16 sec. That is only 1.6 sec per game. That is quite a bit shorter than the 10 sec you claim. Most games last more than 40 moves, and there are no losses on time. A 1+0 game could last upto 2 sec, so 1.6 sec is quite normal.

Sorry, I just used the default settings. Apparently Xboard is not smart enough to cancel the previous move animation when a new move comes. With -xanimate it's significantly faster. But now the problem is the flashing task bar, clocks, etc. eating cpu time.

[hgm]

Sure, this is why Matthew suggested the patch to switch that off. Which is what I did with the /noGUI option, as he requested.

Source (for XBoard) at http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard44.zip
WinBoard executable at http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/winboard.zip