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In article <a2uu1v$drb$1@news.efn.org>, Daniel Overbay wrote:
> Running my own kernel and KDE 2.2...
> When I run Xboard with gnu chess and use this command line
> 
> Xboard -clockMode True
> 
> it starts fine...but where is the chess clock???
>
> I have used differe -tc values and it will indeed tell me when my
> flag has fallen but I don't see any clocks??? sigh...

The clocks are the line in a huge font above the board that starts out
saying something like "White 5:00 Black 5:00".  You don't have to say
"-clockMode True" -- that is the default.

> I want to see If I can pit my gnu chess engine on a 1 gig P III against
> my Chessmaster 6000 on another 'puter...he he he....

I don't know how you could do that with CM6000, unless you're making
the moves from each computer on the other one by hand.

> So if I want to have a 5 minute time limit per move.....on each 'puter
> ...for gnu chess with Xboard what would the command line syntax be?
> 
> Xboard -tc 5 -clockMode True              ..................???

Five minutes *per move*?  It could take you days to play a game,
especially if you're copying the moves back and forth by hand.

Hmm.  I bet you actually did "xboard -st 5", which puts a hard limit
of 5 minutes per move on the chess engine.  That also turns off the
clocks because normal chess clock timing isn't being used.  It would
be nice if the clock would count down the 5 minutes instead, though.

> If so ...where's the beef...I mean the clock???
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Daniel
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