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Subject: Re: Arena vs Winboard: time bug in Arena

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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