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Subject: Re: WMCCC clock handling

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 12:18:27 10/14/97

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On October 14, 1997 at 14:10:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Oh, I thought he entered the true time into his clock, and set his time
controller at something like 40 in 55 (rather than 40 in 60). Then his
program has a 5 minute buffer on real time, enough for operator move
input ...... no ?

Chris




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