Good point, I was thinking in terms of matches.syzygy wrote:Chess engines are used for analysis etc.
It's more that an engine which doesn't have TB support, when matched against an engine with TB support, may deliberately try to trash the disk cache - only during its own searching time where it technically can do what it wants. The point then isn't to improve the engine, but to play chess outside of the board and to hinder the opponent. Works only, of course, if the match is on the same computer.If you don't want a chess engine to profit from TBs when playing another engine, then just disable them.
Somehow, I just like the idea if that background trashing thread doesn't cost much. Would be interesting to see whether this somehow actually has consequences.