Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 07:20:57 02/08/05
Hello everyone, In speaking with a few admins on ICC and digging around myself I think I have come up with the solution to the ChessPartner move delay bug on ICC. Since other interfaces like Winboard, Arena, and ChessAssistant were not having these issues I took at a look at possibly what they were doing that ChessPartner isn't or vice versa. As the only code that I can really look at was Winboard I looked there first. I couldn't see anything that would delay a move relayed to a chess server at all. So I took a deeper look. And I found something interesting. In Arena and Chesspartner, the timestamp.exe that is used is dated: March 9, 1998 The one included with Winboard is dated: September 12, 2001 Now both have the same file size (52,736bytes), yet when you replace the timestamp in Chesspartner with the one from Winboard, the problem just magically goes away. The reason this is not happening on other servers like FICS, is due to the exact same revision of timeseal.exe. Both are from the same date, and have the same file size. Both were last modified 6/10/1998. Obviously the reason that Winboard does not have the move delay bug is something to do with the newer timestamp.exe executable. The problem in Chesspartner is corrected by using the newer file. It would be interesting if others could try this, and report if the bug still happens. I have not seen it yet since I switched the exe's last night. Peter
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