Zonk Zank wrote:
Hi!
> I just tried it and it worked..
Fine :) Still I share the thought in this thread that it
might be more intuitive for the user if a button is in the
setup that just rotates the board for the engine to play
black. But that's up to Pascals.
> So i tried to replicate what i did before and i think
>
> * this is the problem:
> *
> Rotate board ; Play Serious game ; uncheck use book, use
> any timecontrol - I let white use just 1 min+12 second and
> give black 5 +12 and press play... Nothing happens.
>
> ...but then after about 15 seconds it works
>
> Maybe also depending on the timecontrol it may take even
> longer to answer.
>
> Once I do use book and select a book it gets the first
> move immediately.
Well, this is an understandable thing. If you don't use the
book the engine will not use a book. Therefore it will (have
to) calculate the first move, and this takes quite some
time, plus the engine has some internal time management that
allows it to take a certain amount here. That is, you can
not expect the engine to move immediately if you don't allow
here to use a book.
>
> I guess I must have thought something was wrong when it
> didn't answer the first move immediately.
This is in fact pretty likely, as eg. Shredder gives the
first move quite a thought, if I don't allow him to use a
book. (Note that Scid does not allow the engine to use some
internal book, but tells the engine that Scid provides book
moves if applicable.)
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