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Subject: Re: WMCCC clock handling

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:10:33 10/14/97

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On October 14, 1997 at 13:08:16, Chris Whittington wrote:

>
>On October 14, 1997 at 12:19:15, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 1997 at 10:20:07, Chris Whittington wrote:
>>
>>>Its very easy to mod your source code for the time controller. Just take
>>>5 minutes or whatever you want from the internal clock time before you
>>>use it for calculating your time per move allowance ...... ?
>>
>>Forcing anyone to make such a change, two weeks before the tournament,
>>is a very bad idea.  There is no way anyone is going to get me to make
>>*any* change to my program at this point.
>
>You don't need to. You can just enter 40 moves in 55 or whatever ...
>
>Perfectly sensible plot.
>
>Chris
>
>>
>>bruce

yes, but it fails if he is required to enter the "real clock" time when
he updates his clock (assuming he goes to sleep and forgets to hit the
clock once and then needs to correct it.)  Because He would have to
enter
the "real" time which would not allow the 5 minute fudge...



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