On-line blitz tourney October

[Engin]

then Tornado have a chance to win

[Spock]

The challenge is on !

[Greg Strong]

hi all !

it seems for this time there will be more engines participating then last time ?

if also operators can use any engine and not only authors, then i am afraid this tourney can be much more fun

lets suprise us....

Engin

Agreed.

It would also be great if operators used some medium-strength engines rather than the top-notch engines. That would be far more usful to those of us developing/testing our engines. Getting totally stomped by Crafty doesn't help that much

[Spock]

Agreed.

It would also be great if operators used some medium-strength engines rather than the top-notch engines. That would be far more usful to those of us developing/testing our engines. Getting totally stomped by Crafty doesn't help that much

Yes I agree - which is why I should probably restrict Zappa to just one CPU, although I'm not sure how strong this Zappa 1.1 actually is anyway

[Spock]

Once H.G. sets me up with a user name, I'm often around in the evenings UK time, and would be very open to playing some matches from time to time. So far I have Hermann, E.T. Chess and Zappa 1.1 working successfully. You can't seem to stay idle on the server too long, it times you out or something, so it is difficult just to stay logged on accepting challenges

[Richard Allbert]

Hi HG,

I'll be there, engine called "Jabba"

Thanks

Richard

[hgm]

The time-out period of the ICS is set to 10 hours, so I can hardly believe that would be a problem. Perhaps your router kills connections that have been inactive for too long?

WinBoard has an option -keepAlive M, which makes it send a "date" command to the ICS every M minutes (starting counting at the last move it made).

[Richard Allbert]

What should I use as log in?

Thanks!

Richard

[Spock]

The time-out period of the ICS is set to 10 hours, so I can hardly believe that would be a problem. Perhaps your router kills connections that have been inactive for too long?

WinBoard has an option -keepAlive M, which makes it send a "date" command to the ICS every M minutes (starting counting at the last move it made).

When a game has finished, I come back some time later, and whatever I type in the window elicits no response. Not even "logout" gets a response. I have to close out and go back in.

So I just add -keepAlive M to the end of this ?

winboard -ics -icshost 80.100.28.169 -icshelper timeseal -zp -fcp 'et_chess.exe h512' -fd 'C:\Engines\ETChess' -autoKibitz

[hgm]

At the end will do (in fact any order of the options will do, as long as any value immediately follows the option to which it belongs).

The behavior you describe is strange. When the connection dies, WinBoard should popup an error dialog saying "connection closed by ICS". When you OK or close that dialog, WinBoard exits. Maybe the popup was hidden behind some other window.