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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