Re: [XBoard-devel] movelist messages on ICS

[Tim Mann]

It's a feature that doesn't exist. I don't think anyone has asked for such a feature.

The job of "timestamp" is not to put the elapsed time for each move into your PGN file, but to send encrypted timestamps to the chessclub.com server to help deal with the problem of netlag in a fair way that guards against cheating.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:

My experience with chessclub.com is a little limited as I never bothered paying for a full account but, the command I always used to launch it was:

xboard -ics -icshost 207.99.83.228 -icshelper timestamp


I don't know about the -telnet -telnetProgram options.  Perhaps they are obsolete/unmaintained?  They are definitely redundant.

Josh

On 9/26/16 4:44 AM, willspoke wrote:

To whom it may concern,

I am trying to find a way to correctly log to PGN the time elapsed
before a move is made during an ICS game.

On my version of Xboard (4.9.0-1) on Linux (4.7.4-1 Kernel) with
Timestamp installed. The command I am using to execute is:

xboard -ics -icshost 207.99.83.228 -telnet -telnetProgram timestamp

What I see is the move made with the elapsed time before the move on
the message below the clock ie: Bxf6 0:30 but this does not show on the
Move List window nor on the logged PGN file (only the move Bxf6 without
the time taken to make move).

I have posted this query on the Winboard forum in July, but have not
received a response yet.

Is there a way to resolve this issue or is it a feature that is not
available yet?

Many thanks in advance for reviewing this query.

Kind regards,

Will