Re: [eboard-users] Bug in eboard 0.3

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Martin Andersen wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I played a game of chess on FICS with eboard.
> After every move my clock kept on ticking, and I lost about 30 seconds
> at each move.
>

Hello,

the game clock is controlled on server side. When you send a move, eboard
sends the move to the server and the clock is switched (on the interface)
when the server acknowledges the move. These 30 seconds, unfortunately,
look like the round-trip (send-acknowledge) lag, not eboard bug.

do

ping freechess.org

(or, connected to FICS, type the 'ping' command)

to check the delay from your computer to FICS (also, if your connection is
congested (e.g.: using a modem connection and making large downloads and
playing at the same time), you'll have a higher delay.

You can prevent the network delay from being accounted as 'your time' by
using the timeseal program, see the Documentation/FICS-Timeseal.txt file
in the eboard source distribution (it is also linked from the eboard site
ate http://eboard.sourceforge.net)

With timeseal, moves are sent with timestamps, so those '30 seconds' won't
be counted.

See also the following help files on FICS (by typing 'help XXXX' to read
the XXXX file):

lag
timeseal
timeseal_unix

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Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo - Free Software Developer (be...@se...)
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