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[Robbie]

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[m_b_metcalf]

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[Robbie]

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[m_b_metcalf]

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[g.r.emlin]

::: adjustment 2020-01-29+07:25:00-0000 m_b_metcalf se-mismatch -100 2020-01-29+07:28:00-0000 m_b_metcalf se-mismatch -100 :::

[Robbie]

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[m_b_metcalf]

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[Robbie]

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[m_b_metcalf]

::: resign :::
I've discovered that my cache is seriously corrupted, reason unknown.

[Edit: the reason is as follows. When making a run with the old SudokuExplainer in batch mode, the program read from s.txt and wrote the results to res.txt. At the end, a utility program made a summary of the best ratings, and wrote the best result for each ER to a file. This utility program could also be invoked to take a snapshot of progress during a batch run.

It happened, very occasionally, when processing very low ERs, that somehow s and res got out of synch. It's now clear that this was because the utility program would interrogate the files at just that moment when the batch process was accessing them, causing an unnoticed error.

As stated, using SudokuExplainer this was an occasional nuisance. Now, using SukakuExplainer, everything happens much faster and it's possible to process longer files. So this annoying effect occurs more frequently and on higher ERs. I've tested this to confirm my suspicions. The easiest way to avoid the problem is to stop monitoring the batch process, thus making it possible to check both files have the same length, but that's too late for this game.]

[g.r.emlin]

::: game 0372 status LIGHTNING 2020-01-29+07:41:15-0000 :::

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game 0372 2020-01-24+23:00:00-0000 LIGHTNING duration 4d08h dealer Pat pages 2891-2892 (open) 4 players 1 resigned
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    2.0/1.7/1.7 Pat            8.6/8.6/8.6 Robbie         8.9/8.9/8.9 m_b_metcalf    9.2/9.2/9.2 Robbie
    2.3/2.0/2.0 coloin         8.7/8.7/8.7 Robbie         9.0/9.0/9.0 Robbie         9.3/9.3/9.3 Robbie
    8.3/8.3/8.3 m_b_metcalf    8.8/8.8/8.8 Robbie         9.1/9.1/9.1 Robbie
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    open ratings : 1.2 1.5 1.7 2.5 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.4-5.4 5.6-6.2 6.5-8.2 8.4 8.5 9.4-11.8

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          coloin        1      4         0 
     m_b_metcalf        2      5     9h31m  diamond*2,se-mismatch*2,resigned
             Pat        1     56         0  rare-1,dealer
          Robbie        7    659     2m59s  diamond*6,highest-rating=22,last-entry=33,consecutive-entry
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               4       11    724            rare-1,diamond*8,resigned


[Pat]

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[Robbie]

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[Pat]

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[Robbie]

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[Pat]

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