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Subject: Re: question about handling time in WCCC

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:27:57 07/03/04

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On July 03, 2004 at 11:15:12, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote:

>Perhaps you may try Arena?
>
>I see that in the Arena, you can open the debug window (press F4) and enter any
>thing you want to sent it to your engine. Thus, if you add to movei a special
>command such as "addtime +/-x", you can tell your engine to adjust internal
>clock.
>
>Hope that helps and good luck :)
>Pham

I can also adjust the clock by changing the time control during the game under
arena but as far as I understand the program need to ask actively about the time
and I am not allowed to adjust nothing without it.

Movei also has no internal clock and it waits for some itnterface to tell it the
time before it gets a move.

The only knowledge that it remembers about time is the time that it used for the
last move and the time that the interface told it.

The simplest option in case that I want to play under console mode is not to
implement internal clock but tell the engine to ask for the time immediatly
after every make move.

I do not like to use Arena and to have internal clock that is different than the
arena clock.

There are other problems in console mode.
Movei of today will post a lot of analysis or post nothing before it's move.

In the first case it is going to be a problem to search for the move that may be
hidden not in the screen after a second of analysis.

Uri



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