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Schoolbook. (Updated!) 8x10 chess with the rook + knight and bishop + knight pieces added. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 05:58 PM UTC:
Joker80 does game/time very well, but you have to tell it that it should do game per time for that to be apparent. This time control is known as 'Incremental', and you have to select it in the Time Control dialog, and then enter 15 min per game + 0 sec per move.

All you have discovered is that the code for reading the time control does not test the input for reasonability. I should simply make Joker80 exit immediately when someone specifies more than 60 movesin a conventional time control. Conventional time controls are never played with more than 40 moves per session; in Chess that would be quite pointless. You would get a huge amount of extra time at a point where in 95% of the cases the game is already decided, if not finished.

9999999 moves per 15 minutes is just not a valid way to enter game / time for WinBoard engines.