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Subject: Re: Leiden depressions

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 18:35:12 11/05/01

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On November 05, 2001 at 20:23:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On November 05, 2001 at 18:35:25, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>
>You need to modify winboard source code for your plan Miguel.

Why? Because there is no way to ask the question below with the xboard protocol?
I can think of many ways to do this without modifying xboard.

Greetings,
Steffen.

// ...

>>You can ask "How much time have been wasted?" and the operator enter: 10 minutes
>>So, this variable is stored by the engine. When you see "time" coming from
>>winboard you know that this is the total time, but 10 minutes were wasted.
>>So you just make the substraction. In this way, I do not even need an internal
>>clock.
>>
>>Of course you can ask a friendlier question like "How much time is left?"
>>and the engine calculate the time wasted.
>>I think that if the engine ask every 10 moves or so there should be no problem.

Greetings,
Steffen.



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