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Subject: Question about time management when resuming an aborted game on FICS

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 19:55:55 06/16/04

Hi,

My engine (MatMoi) is playing on FICS (under the pseudo ChessPlusPlus) sometimes
his opponent got disconected, some time it got disconected and tha game are
adjourned. When the games are resumed Winboard typicaly send this commands to my
engine:

158985 >first : force
158985 >first : setboard rnb1kbnr/p1pp1ppp/1p1q4/4p3/8/1QPPPPP1/PP5P/RNB1K1NR b
KQkq - 0 7
158985 >first : level 0 5 0
158985 >first : rating 1488 1158
158985 >first : go

So like one can expect my engine set its internal clock to 5 minutes (In this
example), but there is less than 5 minutes left on his clock in reality since
the game is not beginning but resumed. So my engine often lost on time.

What do you do to avoid this problem ?

Hoping my english is not to bad.

Mathieu P.

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