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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