Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 07:05:08 02/13/04
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On February 12, 2004 at 12:24:02, Dave Kuntzsch wrote: >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 Hi Dave, the in Arena Support Forum posted bugs can be found in ASA. In ASA can be found beta versions of Arena too. Sorry, but Martin cann't answer of every message but all messages are listed and Martin try to fix reported bugs. Thanks for your interest! Best Frank
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