Hello Alexander,
> Do we have someone on the list that actually plays more
> seriously by email and could give me a helping hand about
> what is needed in that area?
I don't know if you can call any chess I play "serious", but I do play at IECC.
> Additionally, the organisations I
> checked have not very helpful webpages on that concern and
> to me it looks all a bit strange and unordered.
Speaking as a member of IECC, I can say you are 100% correct here.
The IECC's instructions on time controls are (needlessly) complicated. The time
controls are based on reflection time. Your reflection time for a move is the
integer number of days between the date your opponent's move was available on
your email server and the date you send your reply move. Note that these are
dates, not times. For example, if my server receives my opponent's move at
11:59 pm and I send my reply two minutes later, I am charged one day of
reflection time. There are two time controls to keep track of. The first (and
easiest) is that a player is allowed no more than 10 days of reflection time
per move. The second is that a player is allowed no more than 30 days of
reflection time for any ten consecutive moves. However, there will be much
difficulty in implementing this in scid for the following reasons:
1. If a player does not receive a reply to his move within five days, he is
required to resend his move.
2. Conditional moves are permitted, but accepting a conditional move does not
count against either clock. As far as I understand the rule, conditional moves
on the clock are counted as zero moves in zero days of reflection time.
3. Players are permitted to take leaves of absence as long as they notify the
club and their opponents beforehand. Both clocks are stopped for the duration
of the leave.
4. Transmission of illegal or ambiguous moves carries a 1 reflection day
penalty.
5. Violation of the time controls results in the game being referred to an
arbitrator. Many times, one of the players has had problems (either computer or
life outside of chess). In these cases the arbitrator usually resets both
clocks to zero and the game continues.
Because of the above and because, in my experience at the IECC, time controls
are so rarely an issue, I recommend spending your talents on other improvements
(or at least not building the email manager around the IECC time controls. I
suggest including a reflection time column (with manual entry) in the present
email manager.
> Mainly they do
> not allow for additional metadata within the header or
> commentary code within the body. Actually I need some
> additional metadata fields to allow for automatic
> synchronisation and I modeled this after xboards cmail
> function. The "old" email manager though still allows for
> the easy creation of the rudiments required by these two
> organisations.
I am not sure what you mean by metadata. As long as the complete move list is
transmitted as plain text in the body of the email message, I think this will
meet the IECC requirements.
Please let me know if I can be of more assistance.
Best regards,
Cory
Cory Helfrich
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