Nasty bug in ChessGUI

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Matthias Gemuh
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Nasty bug in ChessGUI

Post by Matthias Gemuh »

I did create the necessary time to test changing bookline per game.
It revealed an old nasty bug : booklines are sometimes read into a too small buffer :twisted:

I shall release ChessGUI 0.103 with a bigger buffer and trimmed booklines.

A manual workaround is to trim boolines to 1200 characters in ChsGUI_Book.cgb and in your tournament file. If you change booklines per game, then trim to 500 characters.

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Matthias.
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Matthias Gemuh
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Re: Nasty bug in ChessGUI

Post by Matthias Gemuh »

Matthias Gemuh wrote:I did create the necessary time to test changing bookline per game.
It revealed an old nasty bug : booklines are sometimes read into a too small buffer :twisted:

I shall release ChessGUI 0.103 with a bigger buffer and trimmed booklines.

A manual workaround is to trim boolines to 1200 characters in ChsGUI_Book.cgb and in your tournament file. If you change booklines per game, then trim to 500 characters.

Best,
Matthias.

It is easy to update to ChessGUI 0.103 :
- save your pgn files
- define default GUI preferences through main window in ChessGUI 0.103
- for each tournament, cross check and save book options and GUI preferences through tournament setup window
- restart your tournaments and each time wait till first game starts.
- close ChessGUI 0.103
- restart ChessGUI 0.103 and import pgn
- resume tournament

Matthias.
My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
http://www.chess.hylogic.de
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Matthias Gemuh
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Re: Nasty bug in ChessGUI

Post by Matthias Gemuh »

Matthias Gemuh wrote:
It is easy to update to ChessGUI 0.103 :
- save your pgn files
- define default GUI preferences through main window in ChessGUI 0.103
- for each tournament, cross check and save book options and GUI preferences through tournament setup window
- restart your tournaments and each time wait till first game starts.
- close ChessGUI 0.103
- restart ChessGUI 0.103 and import pgn
- resume tournament

Matthias.


It is easy to update to ChessGUI 0.103 :
- save your pgn files
- define default GUI preferences through main window in ChessGUI 0.103
- for each tournament, cross check and save book options and GUI preferences through tournament setup window
- restart your tournaments and each time wait till first game starts.
- close ChessGUI 0.103
- restart ChessGUI 0.103 and import pgn
- resume tournament

Matthias.
My engine was quite strong till I added knowledge to it.
http://www.chess.hylogic.de
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Graham Banks
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Re: Nasty bug in ChessGUI

Post by Graham Banks »

Thanks for this useful information Matthias.
I'm only running small tournaments at present, so will wait before switching to the latest version.
Keep up the good work. :D

Cheers, Graham.
gbanksnz at gmail.com