Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 08:56:01 09/22/02
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On September 22, 2002 at 11:38:50, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On September 22, 2002 at 03:52:11, Jan Parzefall wrote: > >>There are some guis that offer the option to play with invisible pieces but >>there is still the board you can see. Therefore i wanted to play blind chess >>against crafty without any gui . The only problem is that i cant set the time >>for the game. After crafty is out of book it doesnt stop thinking. Can anybody >>tell me how to set time for crafty or any other strong winboard engine? >> >>Jan > >Oh, I did only answer the gui part :) > >In all Winboard engines you use the kcommand 'level to set the timecontrol. > >level <moves to timecontrol> <time in minutes> < increment in second per move> > >Set moves to 0 for game in time. > >Ex. >For 30 minutes for the hole game use: >level 0 30 0 > >For game 60 min. for the hole game plus 30 sec. increment each move use: >level 0 60 30 > >For game with 2 hour for 40 moves >level 40 120 0 > >All timecontrols have to be equal here. > >To show time reminding for Crafty use 'clock'. > >To stop the PV from being displayed use: >xboard >nopost > >The clock command is special for Crafty, other command are pure Winboard and >should be in all engines. For equalent to 'clock' read the spesific engines >readme file. > > >Odd Gunnar I did try this and Crafty did not keep track of players clock. You have to send a special command for this. otim <1/100 second to next timecontrol> Ex. for game in 30 min use: otim 180000 Ex for a startup with game in 30 min could be: xboard level 0 30 0 new nopost otim 180000 e2e4 For next game with Crafty as black. New otim 180000 go Hop it's right now :) As I said earlier I use CM for this. Odd Gunnar
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