Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Setting Chesspartner to 40/120'+60'

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:36:11 09/29/03

Go up one level in this thread


On September 29, 2003 at 03:52:33, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On September 29, 2003 at 02:47:37, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On September 28, 2003 at 21:42:30, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On September 28, 2003 at 16:45:23, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>In both cases the book moves window gets empty after selecting 40/120'+60'
>>>>>>(before it shows all book moves.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't understand, CP doesn't support that level type.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Uh, you don't seem to know much about that product. ;-)
>>>>Of course it DOES support this level. I am playing with it in Chesspartner since
>>>>Tiger 13. ;-)
>>>
>>>Hello Harold,
>>>I guess I don't know much about ChessPartner either since I've never been able
>>>to use that type of time control.  Please provide instructions on how to....
>>>Jim
>
>
>>1. Menu: Game->Level
>>2. Open the tournament levels directory
>>3. Click on "New level"
>>4. Chose "tournament level", then "Next"
>>5. "Number of moves before first timecheck" to 40
>>6. "Time before first timecheck" set to 02:00:00
>>7. "Number of move to next timecheck" to 0
>>8. "Time to next timecheck" set to 01:00:00
>
>:-)
>
>Now I see!
>
>First of all the second time control is not meant to function as the time for
>the rest of the game, so the "0 moves" makes no sense. It also explains why you
>get a crash because the internal calulation tries to divide through zero which
>is not allowed.
>
>I will check this with Lex how to solve this one, in the meantime the mystery is
>solved.
>
>My best,
>
>Ed


IIRC this is the recommendation from Christophe or Lex. ;-)
Suggestion how else to setup this time control? And why does Tiger e.g. handle
this correctly?



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.