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Hello,
I download the new version Bearded Neural 44.4.1 chess engine, but show error at Winboard and exit at my PC . The same happened with previous version.
Somebody know what is the problem.?
Regards,
Pablo

Well, run WinBoard with the option -debug, and post the winboard.debug file, then...

Pablo wrote:Hello,
I download the new version Bearded Neural 44.4.1 chess engine, but show error at Winboard and exit at my PC . The same happened with previous version.
Somebody know what is the problem.?
Regards,
Pablo

I tested it just now on my Quad core WINXP-32bit and it worked fine. But as HG said we need much more info about the failure.
Besides a WB debug it would be good to know which cpu/OS you are using. It could well be that it doesn't run on certain old
cpus as I see the 32 bit version is not tested at all.(I assume you also have a 32bit system?)

Guenther

Hi Guenther and H.G.
My PC datas are:
System
Windows XP Professional in spanish
Version 2002 Service Pack 3
32 bits
Equipment
Intel (R) Celeron (R) M CPU 440 @ 1.86GHz
1,99GB of RAM

Apparently the official version of Bearded44441 is for 64bits, so I tried the alternative Untested version.
I hope the following debug text may help for the problem.
Regards,
Pablo

The windows.debug file shows:
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
WinBoard 4.5.3 + Bearded4441Untested
Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
shuffleOpenings = 0
TC string = ':40/300'
mps=40 tc=300000 inc=0
TC string = ':40/300'
mps=40 tc=300000 inc=0
StartChildProcess (dir="C:\Wbrd\A-B\Bearded\Bearded44.4.1") Bearded4441Untested
531 >first : xboard
protover 2
531 <first :
10547 >first : new
random
10547 >first : level 40 5 0
10547 >first : post
10547 >first : hard
10547 >first : easy
Fatal Error: Error: first chess program (Bearded4441Untested) exited unexpectedly
GameEnds(26, Error: first chess program (Bearded4441Untested) exited unexpectedly, 2)
88703 >first : result 0-1 {Error: first chess program (Bearded4441Untested) exited unexpectedly}
88703 >first : force
88703 >first : quit

Guenther Simon wrote:

Pablo wrote:Hello,
I download the new version Bearded Neural 44.4.1 chess engine, but show error at Winboard and exit at my PC . The same happened with previous version.
Somebody know what is the problem.?
Regards,
Pablo

I tested it just now on my Quad core WINXP-32bit and it worked fine. But as HG said we need much more info about the failure.
Besides a WB debug it would be good to know which cpu/OS you are using. It could well be that it doesn't run on certain old
cpus as I see the 32 bit version is not tested at all.(I assume you also have a 32bit system?)

Guenther

Well, so it seems you ave a Bearded executable that crashes as soon as you start it (after printing an empty line). Not much WinBoard can do about that. Complain to the Bearded author...

Hi
Thanks for your comments. I will try to contact the author.

H.G.Muller wrote:Well, so it seems you ave a Bearded executable that crashes as soon as you start it (after printing an empty line). Not much WinBoard can do about that. Complain to the Bearded author...

H.G.Muller wrote:Well, so it seems you ave a Bearded executable that crashes as soon as you start it (after printing an empty line). Not much WinBoard can do about that. Complain to the Bearded author...

Hi H.G. and Guenther,
I contact the author and told me that I was deleting by mistake the file "my_name.txt" that is needed by Bearded engine. I try then the std Bearded44.exe and the Bearded44 Never tested version, and the never tested play OK but the std version definitively did not work in my PC.
Regards,
Pablo

Isn't the bearded44.exe a 64bit version?

I only have one computer for testing chess program.
A test version will only 64bit.
Experimenting with the techniques of AI so the program can have a variety of supporting files.
These files are not compatible between different versions.
Please do not delete it or replace these files.

sorry, my english is poor

make sure there are no underscores in the exacutables name,ie, bearded_blah.exe.
regards mike

Why is that?