On-line blitz tourney October

[michiguel]

The next on-line engine blitz tourney will be held

Saturday, Oct 10, 3 pm EST (21:00 CET)

Everyone is welcome! Server IP = 80.100.28.169. The server is now on-line permanently.

CET is local time, correct?

If people have doubts regarding the time, they can log on with this sequence in a console (directly in linux or after doing Start->All programs->accesories->command prompt in some Winodows versions):


telnet 80.100.28.169 5000
guest
<enter>
date

And they will get the local time in the server itself, to calibrate everybody's watches

This is what I get when in Chicago (CST) is 5:03 PM (17:03)

fics% date
Local time - Wed Oct 7, 00:03 CEST 2009
Greenwich time - Tue Oct 6, 22:03 GMT 2009


Miguel

[Spock]

Another successful match played vs FairyMax with Hermann, but again Hermann is not pondering same as ETChess wasn't. Is there a setting in winboard to turn it on, or I wonder if EtChess and Hermann do not support it

[Spock]

If people have doubts regarding the time, they can log on with this sequence in a console (directly in linux or after doing Start->All programs->accesories->command prompt in some Winodows versions):


telnet 80.100.28.169 5000
guest
<enter>
date

And they will get the local time in the server itself, to calibrate everybody's watches

This is what I get when in Chicago (CST) is 5:03 PM (17:03)

fics% date
Local time - Wed Oct 7, 00:03 CEST 2009
Greenwich time - Tue Oct 6, 22:03 GMT 2009


Miguel

Vista does not seem to have telnet....

[Spock]

Vista does not seem to have telnet....

But I found the XP exe
UK time is 1 hour behind HG's server local time

[hgm]

Another successful match played vs FairyMax with Hermann, but again Hermann is not pondering same as ETChess wasn't. Is there a setting in winboard to turn it on, or I wonder if EtChess and Hermann do not support it

There are ponder contols in the Options -> General... and the Options -> Adjudications... menu dialog.

I guess the latter is a rather illogical place; it was inherited from Winboard_x where this dialog was called Engine Settings. But it would be more logical to have it in the Global Settings, together with hash size. max CPUs and stuff like that (a menu which used to be called UCI in Winboad_x, but now applies to all engines). Perhaps I will move it for the next release.

[Spock]

There are ponder contols in the Options -> General... and the Options -> Adjudications... menu dialog.

I guess the latter is a rather illogical place; it was inherited from Winboard_x where this dialog was called Engine Settings. But it would be more logical to have it in the Global Settings, together with hash size. max CPUs and stuff like that (a menu which used to be called UCI in Winboad_x, but now applies to all engines). Perhaps I will move it for the next release.

Thanks - now pondering !

[hgm]

Note that there is an elaborate help file with WinBoard, which you can summon up through the 'Help' menu, which includes a table of contents and an alphabetical index that would allow you to quickly look up such things!

[Spock]

I did look at the help, for some reason I didn't find anything but now I see it is there

So presumably, outside of your tourneys, any two people can log on and play a match against each other at any time as long as your server is up ?

[hgm]

Exactly. And the plan is to have the server up permanently, from now on.

It is mainly meant as an opportunity for people to play variants such as Gothic Chess or Chinese Chess: unlike FICS this server does support other board sizes than 8x8. Main problem is of course that there usually will be no people. So for now people will have to make an appointment with prospective opponents if they want to play. Of course people interested in a particular variant could organize their own tourneys for it, using this server.

[bdeane]

> Vista does not seem to have telnet....

It does, its just not installed by default. See:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Window ... 33.mspx#EV

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By default, Telnet is not installed with Windows, but you can install it by following the steps below.

 To install Telnet Client 
 1.  Click the Start button , click Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Turn Windows features on or off.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
 
2.  In the Windows Features dialog box, select the Telnet Client check box.
 
3.  Click OK. The installation might take several minutes.
 

Brian