Author: Aivaras Juzvikas
Date: 22:45:55 06/16/04
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On June 16, 2004 at 23:25:19, Andrew Wagner wrote: >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? fics does send time cmd too
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