Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:52:47 11/04/01
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On November 03, 2001 at 18:01:24, Bas Hamstra wrote: >Against Diep Winboard's clock was slightly out of sync with the real clock. >Don't ever let that happen! Amazing how fast the difference grows and you CAN'T >adjust the clock in Winboard. A couple of minutes difference is *deadly*. And, >though it is allowed to adjust the engine clock, apparently it is not allowed to >restart Winboard+engine with a corrected time. Vincent was the first to point >that out to the tournament directors. "Not allowed! If I can't restart my engine >for table bases, HE can't bla bla bla..." (Tao +0.90 Diep +0.001 but drawish >IMO). Whatever I would have done in this situation, *not* this pityful "no no, >not allowed!". The 30 nullmoves from Diep that followed to push Tao through the >flag I can forgive, but not the "nono". I personally strongly disagreed with the arbiters decision not to allow you to correct the clock. If that requires restarting WinBoard, so what? Vincent's comment is nonsense. The arbiter was there, he saw what you were doing. He would have seen you changing options in the engine if you did so. Synchronising the clock is expressly _allowed_ by the rules. Another thing is that in the game Sjeng-XiniX I accidentally started without setting my 'operatortime'. I called the arbiter and he allowed it. So why wouldn't he allow it there? If it weren't for the fact that you were running on a laptop, I would have *gladly* asked Miss Winboard to 'accidentally' flip the wrong switch again ;) -- GCP
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