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Subject: Re: FRITZ-WINBOARD-REPORT / BIONIC-GROMIT-Update

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 04:58:01 01/29/99

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Some information about Gromits problem with the timecontrols:

Old versions of Gromit lost on time when using the Fritz-Winboard-adapter
because there is a difference between Fritz and Winboard that Gromit didn't
respect. I will upload a (hopefully) fixed version this afternoon
(in about 5 hours) to
http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/index.htm


The problem was like this:
XBoard sends the command

level moves time fischer

only once when starting the game.

Fritz sends (before every move)

new
... all the moves ...
level movesleft timeleft fischer

When Gromit computed its time it used (moves-movesplayed), but if running
under Fritz this was (movesleft-movesplayed)==(moves-2*movesplayed) and
therefore Gromit often lost on time, thinking it had already reached the
timecontrol.

I'm short on time now therefore I have not tested if 'finish the whole
game in n minutes' works.

Frank









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