Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 20:25:19 06/16/04
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On June 16, 2004 at 22:55:55, Mathieu Pagé wrote: >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. I'm more familiar with ICC than with FICS. There, when a game is resumed, it sends the interface the clock information, which Winboard automatically parses. Then it sends a command like 'time 34423' to the interface, saying how many milliseconds it has left. In fact, it sends that command to the engine after every move. Do you not see anything like that in your log when connected to FICS?
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