Houdini 1.03 is available

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Re: Houdini 1.03 is available

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H has possibly overtaken R4 in strength now.
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Re: Houdini 1.03 is available

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Alex Lobanov wrote:Robert Houdart
Why in the engine made a distortion evaluation?

:?:
Very interesting question.
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Re: Houdini 1.03 is available

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Thank u :.)
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Re: Houdini 1.03 is available

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Osipov Jury wrote:
Alex Lobanov wrote:Robert Houdart
Why in the engine made a distortion evaluation?

:?:
Very interesting question.
Not sure that I entirely grasp the question, but you may find the answer in this interesting topic Larry Kaufman recently started: http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35458 .

Robert
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Re: Houdini 1.03 hangs in infinity MV-mode

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Hi,
Houdini 1.03 hangs in Multi-PV Modus!

try this:

[D]2r3r1/2Nb1pkp/Q2p4/4p1b1/1p4q1/N2P2P1/PPR2P1P/4R1K1 w - - 0 28
Levitina-Gaprindashvili, URS-ch 1979

e.g. 3-var modus: play 28.Nab5 Qf3 29.Qxd6 Bh3 - Analysis window is suddenly blank.

Houdini hangs in memory, used 2 Cores (Taskmanager shows this), move backwards - still no output.

It happends in Chessbase-GUI and also in Shredder12 classic-GUI

OS Win7 x64
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Re: Houdini 1.03 hangs in infinity MV-mode

Post by Paloma »

I have just seen this post by John Doe: http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?p=3996#p3996
he got the same experience :(
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Re: Houdini 1.03 is available

Post by Nimzovik »

Houdini wrote:
Osipov Jury wrote:
Alex Lobanov wrote:Robert Houdart
Why in the engine made a distortion evaluation?

:?:
Very interesting question.
Not sure that I entirely grasp the question, but you may find the answer in this interesting topic Larry Kaufman recently started: http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35458 .

Robert

Interesting indeed!
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Re: Houdini 1.03 hangs in infinity MV-mode

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Paloma wrote:Hi,
Houdini 1.03 hangs in Multi-PV Modus!

try this:

[D]2r3r1/2Nb1pkp/Q2p4/4p1b1/1p4q1/N2P2P1/PPR2P1P/4R1K1 w - - 0 28
Levitina-Gaprindashvili, URS-ch 1979

e.g. 3-var modus: play 28.Nab5 Qf3 29.Qxd6 Bh3 - Analysis window is suddenly blank.

Houdini hangs in memory, used 2 Cores (Taskmanager shows this), move backwards - still no output.

It happends in Chessbase-GUI and also in Shredder12 classic-GUI

OS Win7 x64
Herbert,

Thank you!
Your information enabled me to reproduce the problem on my development platform, so the most difficult part in solving this issue is done :).
I'll keep you informed about the solution.

Thanks again,
Robert
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Re: Houdini 1.03 hangs in infinity MV-mode

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For your information, the correction of this problem should be fairly straightforward (a single line of code to add); I'll provide a fixed release tomorrow Saturday 17th July.
I'll keep you informed, sorry to all users for the inconvenience.

Robert
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Re: Houdini 1.03 hangs in infinity MV-mode

Post by Werewolf »

Your service is impeccable. I hope this engine gets rated in ipon and others.