Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:44:17 10/14/97
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On October 14, 1997 at 14:22:12, Amir Ban wrote: >On October 14, 1997 at 14:07:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 14, 1997 at 13:53:31, Amir Ban wrote: >Pardon my snipping your entire post, but I did not understand why you or >Bruce think fudging to be necessary, when you are allowed to update the >clock anytime. I don't want to bring my "setup" dialog up in order to change my clock. It will probably work, but I don't want to risk a crash or making a typo when I enter the time. If I tell the program it has five minutes, it will use something less than five minutes. I don't know how much less. My point is that here on October 14 I should not have to madly go through my code trying to remember how the time allocation system (which I haven't touched for a year) works, in order to make some last-minute mandated change. I play zero games with my program other than on ICC. I don't want to have to take something I know to be stable (the non-ICC time control mechanim), and destabilize it, forcing me to play a series of off-line games in order to test it. It has been my plan for this entire year to do what I did last year, which was to set my time control to five minutes less than the tournament time control, and forget about it. I don't want to have to worry that if my opponent tells me to set my clock right before I think about move 40 (which may in itself be a tactic), and I set it to five minutes or whatever, that my program will think for 4:58 and I'll flag because I can't move and press the clock fast enough. The issue here is that the rules shouldn't be changed two weeks before the tournament. I have been preparing to play by the old rules, not by something that will be finalized at the player's meeting. What I fear is that two rules will be mandated: 1) You have to display your clock. 2) You can't fudge your time at the start of the game and then forget about it, you have to enter the time that is actually on your clock. Both of these will require me to change code. There shouldn't be any rule changes that require code changes, at this late date. bruce
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