Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:44:02 11/05/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 12:44:55, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On November 05, 2001 at 12:20:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On November 05, 2001 at 11:20:59, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>I never entered an "On the board" computer chess competition so there must be >>>something that I am missing. What's the big problem with using winboard? >> >>You cannot adjust WinBoard's clock. > >ok, but... is that a real problem? as long as you can adjust the internal clock. The problem is that xboard/winboard tells you the clock times after each move. If you adjust your internal clock, xboard will re-adjust it back. :) You _could_ have a tournament mode where you ignore the xboard time/otim commands, and let the operator set the time when needed. > >>>Why >>>can't the engine ask you once in a while how much time has been wasted by the >>>operator or whatever? What's the big deal? Is it not allowed? >> >>That's perfectly possible and that is what I was doing. > >Ok, if that is possible, I do not understand all the bitching against Winboard >that Vincent was doing. Winboard has everything needed then to nicely operate >an engine in a tournament. Am I missing something else? The time issue is a bit harder than expected because if you don't (can't) adjust winboard's clocks, then winboard _will_ adjust yours back to the wrong values. > >> >>>Why do the people need to restart an engine plus the interface??? >> >>Because if your engine can't/doesn't ask you for the >>time it has wasted, the only way to correct WinBoards clock >>is restarting WinBoard. > >but you do not need to correct winboard clock if the engine knows how much >time has been wasted. I do not think a restart should be allowed for this >reason. A restart could be a big advantage in some situations. A programmer >should either use the interface that suits their program accordingly or in this >case use some of the properties of the interface (winboard). I agree. ICCA events used to not allow restarts unless the machine or program obviously crashed. That allows for a form of human intervention that is best left out. > >Regards, >Miguel > > > >> >>-- >>GCP
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