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[Julien MARCEL]

Hello Steve,

I just download the new svn trunk and compiled it, and ScidVsMac seems to behave much better: no more interface hangs or engine staying in memory.

Still, this is not totally perfect:

- as a matter of test, I tried to launch a 100-engines tournament: ScidVsMac hanged with a 100% CPU use. After 2-3 minutes of waiting, I killed its task.
- then I launched a 15-engines tournament and it started well. But something occurred to me: as now we can't change the engines starting with position 11 and up, breaking my 100+-engines tournament into smaller 15-tournaments is not possible anymore, as the engines at rank 11-15 will always be the same.
- so I decided to only launch 10-engines sub-tournaments, and up to now it's doing fine... With one small problem still: when an engine hangs or crash, ScidVsMake won't auto flag it. So if we aren't next to the computer to click on "white/black wins", the computer will stay all night long like that with a clock in the red and increasing... Do you think you could add the auto flag option? (Maybe you did and I missed it?)

Still, it looks much more better! Thanks for those improvements!

EDIT: hmm... I just saw a new problem, in an Alibaba<>BACE game: BACE tried to promote a pawn, and Scid just displays an "Error reading move: e2e1" message... (Probably because BACE didn't precise any promoted piece. Easy fix: always assume a queen when the engine says nothing) now the clock is in the red and counting...
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