Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 19:31:56 02/08/05
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On February 08, 2005 at 10:20:57, Peter Skinner wrote: >Hello everyone, > >In speaking with a few admins on ICC and digging around myself I think I have >come up with the solution to the ChessPartner move delay bug on ICC. > >Since other interfaces like Winboard, Arena, and ChessAssistant were not having >these issues I took at a look at possibly what they were doing that ChessPartner >isn't or vice versa. As the only code that I can really look at was Winboard I >looked there first. > >I couldn't see anything that would delay a move relayed to a chess server at >all. So I took a deeper look. And I found something interesting. > >In Arena and Chesspartner, the timestamp.exe that is used is dated: > >March 9, 1998 > >The one included with Winboard is dated: > >September 12, 2001 > >Now both have the same file size (52,736bytes), yet when you replace the >timestamp in Chesspartner with the one from Winboard, the problem just magically >goes away. > >The reason this is not happening on other servers like FICS, is due to the exact >same revision of timeseal.exe. Both are from the same date, and have the same >file size. > >Both were last modified 6/10/1998. > >Obviously the reason that Winboard does not have the move delay bug is something >to do with the newer timestamp.exe executable. The problem in Chesspartner is >corrected by using the newer file. > >It would be interesting if others could try this, and report if the bug still >happens. I have not seen it yet since I switched the exe's last night. > >Peter After more testing, this doesn't seem to fully cure the problem. It still happened over here. -elc.
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