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Subject: Re: Problem with winboard and -movespersession or -mps

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:44:52 07/08/03

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On July 08, 2003 at 08:11:12, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>On July 08, 2003 at 07:42:02, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On July 08, 2003 at 06:51:12, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to play 40 moves in 5 minutes with Nullmover against Kaissa and
>>>can't get it work. I tried both Winboard 4.2.3 and the latest Winboard 4.2.6. I
>>>used before a tournamentmanager for this but I would like to run it from the
>>>commandfile and don't seem to be able to get it work :-(
>>>
>>>This is my commandline?
>>>
>>>"c:\program files\winboard\WinBoard.exe" -mg 9999 -debug -cp -fd "C:\engine\Null
>>>mover" -fcp "Nullmover_020g9.exe" -sd "C:\engine\Kaissa 1.0" -scp "Kaissa2_10.ex
>>>e" -size tiny -thinking -ponderNextMove false -sgf c:\engine\pgn\match.pgn -mps
>>>40 -tc 5:00 -inc 0
>>>
>>>It still sends the command "level 0 5 0" to Nullmover (I can see this both in
>>>the winboard.debug and my own nullmover logfile).
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Michel
>>
>>Have you run a match with -inc before hand? On mine, if I do that, I have to go
>>into winboard.ini and delete the /moveIncrement line (can't remember what it's
>>called) and save it. The next time you run it, it will use the /mps setting you
>>give it. If you run another increment match, you'll have to do this again.
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Andrew
>
>Hi Andrew,
>
>Thanks a for your answer.
>
>I never played an increment match on this PC. After deleting the lines u
>mentioned, or delete more timecontrol lines, or delete all lines out of
>winboard.ini it doesn't help. I still play all moves in 5 minute matches.
>
>Regards,
>
>Michel

Hi Michel,

I dont know if it will help, but if I look in my WB.ini, I have

/movesPerSession=40
/timeDelay=1
/timeControl="5"
/timeIncrement=-1

for 40moves/5minutes, may be you should try inc '-1' instead of '0'?

Regards,
Günther



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