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Subject: Re: ICC with arena and winboard

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 14:14:04 10/27/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 16:48:37, martin fierz wrote:

>hi,
>
>i have been playing on ICC a bit with my engine, but i have had some problems:
>at first, i used arena, and there sometimes the following happens: when my
>engine is playing black, arena says "illegal move" on the second move of my
>engine, although the move was perfectly legal. it then goes on to lose on time
>of course. has anybody else seen this kind of problem with arena+ICC?
>
>next, i added winboard support to my engine and now i'm playing without problems
>under winboard. one annoying thing is that my engine gets kicked out of ICC
>after 60 minutes of idleness, which happens rather frequently. has anybody
>compiled himself a version of winboard which sends an arbitrary command to ICC
>(like "finger") every 50 minutes or so? or is there another solution to this?
>
>cheers
>  martin

I thought ICC supported a noautologout command (set noautologout 1).

Frank



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