Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 02:49:49 04/30/98
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On April 30, 1998 at 05:20:27, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> ... >>Hi Uli, >>I don't understand: >>.."Who for instance is going to check that the programs do not use more >>time than available ..". >> >>Did not every programm test the time of the opponet and say 'Flag >>fallen' ? >> >>.. > >Hi Peter, >you shouldn't forget that there are two clocks, cause each program has >it's own time management. You can never be sure that the programs' >bookkeepings of used times do 100% agree. In fact, deviations wan't be I agree. This isn't physically impossible :-) >avoidable with the elapse of time. E.g., the communication of moves will >take some time (with auto232 time, these spans are even of the order of >seconds). Some programs don't seem to account for the time which they Ok, then why not use the Fisher-System and add 3 seconds per move? >use to scan the opening book. And so on. Yeah, I saw cases, where Rebel had 0-Time lost after 20 moves out of the book, and this cannot be. Other programs i noted, used a second per move. >IMO, for these reasons you can't rely on the time book-keeping of one of >the competing chess programs. >Other points of doubt could be: have both of the programmers correctly >implemented the criteria for draws (50move-rule, ...) ? Discrepancies ooooooops, You will tell me, such programs exist after so much experience and time? >are possible. Therefore I think that a clean solution for automatic play >must include a referee program, which should be a complete chess-machine >(to be able of keeping track of 50move rule, repetitions, ...). >Regards, Uli I think, if all programs are implemented well and the 3-seconds-per-move add-on is used, the time-difference will be really small. To use an extra-machine (can FICS this do?) sounds for me, to shoot with cannons for sparrows. BTW: Of course I know the xboard, I use crafty with xboard under LINUX ! Use UNIX or die :-) Where is the comet-version for LINUX ? ;-) Cheerio Peter
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