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Subject: Re: Winboard and flag falling...

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 06:16:48 09/10/00

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On September 08, 2000 at 21:55:42, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On September 08, 2000 at 21:53:28, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>>I was watching a game between my program and GNUChess and the flag fell for
>>GNUChess.  Am I supposed to call the flag somehow?  The otime went to 1, then it
>>went to a higher value.  Am I supposed to keep track of the otime and when it is
>>greater than the last value then call the flag on my opponent?
>>
>>Larry.
>
>Did you enable autoflag under Options/General ?
>
>Mogens.

I enabled the autoflag, and I lose on time when my flag falls.  The opponent
runs out of time and we both get more time to play.  I assume that a winboard
program sees when the opponents time is expired and sends a result message that
game was lost on time but I do not know this for sure.

Larry.



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