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Subject: Re: Leiden depressions

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 11:44:07 11/06/01

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On November 06, 2001 at 11:57:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 05, 2001 at 21:46:52, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>
>>On November 05, 2001 at 21:35:12, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>Yes there is a way. Taken from the protocol that comes with xboard
>>and it is in Tim Mann's web page:
>>
>>----------------------------------
>>askuser REPTAG MESSAGE
>>Here REPTAG is a string containing no whitespace, and MESSAGE consists of any
>>characters, including whitespace, to the end of the line. xboard pops up a
>>question dialog that says MESSAGE and has a typein box. If the user types in
>>"bar", xboard sends "REPTAG bar" to the engine. The user can cancel the dialog
>>and send nothing.
>>-----------------------------------
>>
>>Winboard has everything to do this. Am I delussional?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Miguel
>
>That isn't the problem.  The problem is _winboard's_ clock value.  If you

Vincent thought it was a problem and it was and answer to him.

the idea how to do it is
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?195767

>can't change it, winboard will continually give you time/otim messages after
>each move that change the clock back.  If you try to ignore those, then you
>take the chance of breaking the chess server code which should use them.  In

I am afraid that I do not understand what you mean by chess server code.
Is it related to the communication with ICC and the likes? It is not intended
to be use in that environment.

>short, it turns into a kludge one way or another.  When I play in tournaments,
>I use "text mode" always.  And have absolutely no problems of any kind doing
>so either...

Of course, the discussion is whether we can do this in WB or not.

Regards,
Miguel



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