Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 17:23:23 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 05:14:26, Jason Williamson wrote: >Is there a way to help bringer not lose on time all the time in the Fritz 6 >Interface? It appears the bringer loses track of time after a few moves as it >has to replay the position. My serious suggestion is - complain with Chessbase. I had and I have much problems understanding their implementation of the winboard protocol. I am almost certain, that ChessBase implements commands, that are defined with Tim Mann's description of the Winboard protocol, in a totally different way. Also, I have read the technical documention of their Winbaord adapter many times. I am almost certain, that their implementation contradicts their documentatation. I give one small example. Tim Mann says, that after the command "new", the chess engine should feel as black. He also says, that "time" sets the clock of the chess engine. If Yace plays as white under the Fritz GUI, it alway gets new first. Then it gets the time command. This now should set the time on the clock of black. Then it gets all the moves of the current game. Then it gets "go", which just means: search. Perhaps, you will see, that this doesn't work at all, when the engine is white. There will be no time synchronization at all. I can see, that the ChessBase method (giving the whole move list before each move) is more robust. But the way they implement it, just makes it almost impossible for any Winboard engine to work, without any very strange "fitz_mode"-hacks. Many statements of their documentation are just not true. If you don't believe, I can show specific samples of my logs. ChessBase seems to ignore my comments ... Regards, Dieter
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