The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for March will take place on:
Saturday March 21, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)
To connect:
winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz
(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)
On-line engine blitz tourney March
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
good, i had expected this last week, but ok better late then nothing
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Hi hg
I sent you a pm 😉
I sent you a pm 😉
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
I really like these tourney's and would like to participate but it's gong to be tough to get back in time for the start. Is there any way to not get timed out after logging in, and doing an early mam join 1...? I seem to get timed out after about 4 or 5 minutes...
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
There is a "keep alive" parameter that I use, I think it is -KeepAlive 5 or something like that. I can confirm when I next get to my PC.
HG can auto-join you in the tournament if he thinks your engine and internet conenction are reliable enough to run unattended.
HG can auto-join you in the tournament if he thinks your engine and internet conenction are reliable enough to run unattended.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
Hi Ray,
Thanks, that seems to be working - it's sending a date command every N minutes. I'll do that on Sat just in case I'm late (after Super Saturday 6 Nations) as long as HG is happy with ppl doing it. And presumably it doesn't affect anything when one is mid game.
Do we know if it's the server dis-connecting or our client machines; if the later we can presumably tweak a timeout somewhere...?
Thanks, that seems to be working - it's sending a date command every N minutes. I'll do that on Sat just in case I'm late (after Super Saturday 6 Nations) as long as HG is happy with ppl doing it. And presumably it doesn't affect anything when one is mid game.
Do we know if it's the server dis-connecting or our client machines; if the later we can presumably tweak a timeout somewhere...?
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
The ICS on its default setting logs you out after 1 hour. An admin can change this to any other value, and on my old ICS I had enlarged it to 10 hours, but I don't remember how I did that, and now that XBoard had the keepAlive option there seemed no need for it anyway.
If you get disconnected after 5 min or so, you can be sure that it was not by ICS action, but that there must be some other impatient element in your connection. But the -keepAlive activity usually helps against that too, e.g. by setting it to 1 min.
WinBoard should even exit when no responce to the 'date' command comes in before it sends the next, so in principle you could run it from a script that reconnects in this case.
If you get disconnected after 5 min or so, you can be sure that it was not by ICS action, but that there must be some other impatient element in your connection. But the -keepAlive activity usually helps against that too, e.g. by setting it to 1 min.
WinBoard should even exit when no responce to the 'date' command comes in before it sends the next, so in principle you could run it from a script that reconnects in this case.
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OK, thanks. I'll use keepAlive. Could you to auto-join me if I'm a bit late please?
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
Sure. If I see your engine logged in, I will join it.
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney March
Are there no sponsors for this major event ?