Hi all,
there's more and more acceptance of clocks in bg tournaments and I
rememebr that for
a while we had a "clocks" option in gnubg (actually quite complete,
multiple types of clocks,
mostly for chess fans).
I do think it would be nice to have this in gnubg, and it would be a
feature others don't have,
at least at the moment.
For match, the most common clock format seems to be a fixed time per
player (dependent
on the match length) + a per move bonus (reset at each move).
When player A goes on roll, the bonus time goes down from it predefined
value.
If A moves whithin the bonus time, it's total time will not decrease. If A
has not completed
its move after the bonus time has reached zero, A's time starts to
decrease. Notice that,
playing over a real board, the bonus time is partially eaten at each roll
by the process "pick
up the dice, shake, roll".
If such thing could be made into gnubg, nice features would be (my own
order of importance):
- 1 clock type (the above) one, with configurable parameters (min per
point, bonus time etc)
and some standard predifined settings (e.g. 2min per point, 15sec per
move).
- pause button
- clock shown graphically besides the board (a nice to have, clock shown
below the board
in the interface could do it as well)
Seems clear to me that we will only clock human players and not gnubg.
MaX.
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