Author: Michael Fuhrmann
Date: 15:10:01 10/05/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 15:31:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Unfortunately, I cleaned out my log files last night. So now I can't say what time and otim messages were. :(
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