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Subject: Re: Crafty lost on time?

Author: Michael Fuhrmann

Date: 12:08:59 10/05/00

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On October 05, 2000 at 14:19:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 05, 2000 at 12:18:52, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>
>>In a comp-comp game I played recently between Crafty 17.13 (black) and Little
>>Goliath, Crafty lost on time. Time control was 40 moves in 6 minutes. On the
>>40th move Winboard flashed the message "Black's flag fell", when Crafty
>>apparently didn't make its move on time.
>>
>>I opened up the log file and on the 40th move it said "time control reached" (I
>>believe that was the message). Does that mean Crafty thought it made the time
>>control OK, and Winboard thought otherwise?
>
>
>That probably means that you didn't set the time control in winboard with the
>mps/etc options.  Which means that Crafty assumed something like 40 moves in
>6 minutes, not game in 6 minutes.
>
>That is only a guess...


I used Winboard's "conventional chess clock" option (not the "incremental clock"
option) and selected 40 moves in 6 minutes.



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