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

Author: Dave Kuntzsch

Date: 09:24:02 02/12/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 16:54:01, Dennis Breuker wrote:

>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

I reported the strange clock behavior on 1.02 Beta to the Arena formum. Although
nobody ever responded, it appears to be fixed in 1.03 Beta.

Dave



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