Author: Dennis Breuker
Date: 13:54:01 02/11/04
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On February 11, 2004 at 12:20:29, José Carlos wrote: >On February 11, 2004 at 08:04:51, Jason Kent wrote: > >>Hey, >>I've been using winboard for Cm9k, and it has done very well on fics (2450) even >>without a book, tablebase or anything. the engine itself is only like 300k. >>lol. >>Well I am using arena since it comes with a opening book, (even tablebases can >>be setup) and it's good, but im getting flagged in lightning, and even in blitz >>games when i never got flagged in winboard. My rating dropped significantly in >>blitz. I noticed that after the first few book moves when playing online its >>already used like 2-5 seconds. When I play offline it makes all of its book >>moves with all of its time left. I'm using timeseal, but there is a delay >>option right under it which i can set in ms(millaseconds). I'm not sure if this >>is the problem or if its something else. >> >>Jason > > Arena has some strage bug. My program loses on time there sometimes. Studying >the log files, I've seen that Arena "lies" to the engine, telling it wrong times >in some games. The engine thinks it has 1 minute, spends 50 seconds and Arena >suddenly says it only had 30 seconds. > It happens so often to my program that I must use winboard for serious >testing. > > José C. I have precisely the same problem with my engine. This is defnitely a bug in Arena. Also, watch the clocks in Arena, they behave strangely after making a move... Dennis
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