Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:31:27 10/05/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 15:08:59, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >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. You might check near the end of the log to see what the "time" and "otim" messages from xboard to crafty said. These tell it how much time it and its opponent has left on the clock. I can't imagine it losing on time, unless there is something else running on the machine at the same time causing some paging or context-switching that is causing some time loss...
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