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Subject: Re: Question: Winboard: Hints and features that you're missing

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:18:03 02/25/03

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On February 25, 2003 at 05:29:45, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>i want know if someone missing features or have new hints to make
>wb a little bit better ? If no, this will be the last version, expect we find a
>real big bug.
>
>features:
>
>- Dieter (Yace) want a live tourney mode (example for Paderborn/Leiden):
>   -Modify time on the fly
>   -Add operator time after every move
>   -Takeback moves on the fly
>   -Analysis window active with more output (what?)
>
>Please make some hints :-)
>
>greetings
>Daniel

I am missing the following:

1)A possibility for winboard to adjudicate game based on position without buying
claims of engines that can be wrong including preventing cases when a program
resign for the opponent.

2)a possibility for winboard to kill processes if an engine refuse to quit after
winboard tells it to quit(Leo complains about engine that are running in the
background after a game is finished and this may solve the problem).

I do not know if it is possible to do it by a program and the only way that I
know to end processes is to use end process by task managar.

Note that if a program can do it then I imagine that in game between programs on
the same computer one program may win the game because part of the program
simply say to kill the process of the second program(I never saw that mistake in
games between programs and the only mistake that I know is resigning for the
opponent).

I do not know what programs are able to do, so I can imagine that it may be
possible to kill the opponent process also in Leo's tournament when the only way
to prevent it may be to use 2 different computers and not a dual.

3)a possibility to play at unequal time control(mentioned by another poster)

Uri



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