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In article <36d3fdc7.0@news.uni-ulm.de>,
Achim Engelhart <achim.engelhart@e-technik.NSPuni-ulm.de> wrote:
>In article <7avor9$pel@src-news.pa.dec.com>, mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) writes:
>>The tags are saved in the -sgf file too, if the ratings are known to
>>xboard.  I just tried this with two ICS games, and it worked fine.
>>
>>If you are playing locally against a chess engine, then xboard doesn't
>>know your rating or the program's and does not set the rating tags.
>>Perhaps that is what you're seeing.
>>
>>     --Tim
>
>Okay, here are some details:
>
>The example I wrote about was connecting to chess.net with
>
>"./accuclock -p 5500 &" (the timeseal program of chess.net)
>and then
>"xboard -ics -icshost localhost -icsport 5500 -ncp -sgf record.pgn"
>
>1) Is this the same as playing locally against a chess engine?

No.

>   So why does xboard NOT know the ratings when playing but KNOWS them
>   when saving (with "Save Game") a game that was examined 
>   (e. g. with examine playername #gamenumber)?

This is probably a bug in chess.net.  They are probably not supplying
the ratings at all; or they might using a different syntax from ICC
and FICS.

>2) If there is no possibility to avoid the described behaviour, can I start
>   xboard in another way so that accuclock still works but xboard is not
>   playing locally (and therefore the ratings can be auto-saved)?

No.  The problem isn't with how xboard is playing, it's with
chess.net.

	--Tim
-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/