Hello Alexander, On Jun 1, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: [...] > Ok, thats what was also my impression from the pages, that > it's only about days. > > > 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. > > Ah! Hence, if I stamp the incoming mail 06/01/2008 and the > outgoing mail also to 06/01/2008 I'd have to add one day to > the reflection time count.
Sorry for misleading you here. You were correct the first time. If a player receives a move and sends his reply the same calendar day (in his time zone) he is charged zero days reflection time. So, if the incoming move is available on my server at 0100 (my time) and I send my reply at 2300 (my time) I am charged zero reflection days. However if I receive a move at 2300 (my time) and reply at 0100 (the next calendar day), I am charged one day. [...] > Ok, from your points I see that it is just not really > possible to do all of this automagically. Now, I'll just > tell you what I did so far. It may very well be possible to do it automagically for other clubs, but not with the IECC time controls. > If you receive a mail and sync it in using the current CC > code it will stamp the reception time like you can do it > with scids current email manager by just "Time - Received > today". If you send a mail from current CC window a similar > stamp will be added for "sent move today". I wondered why > Shane left all this to manual handling but as I understand > you, there is just no real possibility beyond that. Now, > I could read out these time stamps (you can also edit them > as usual by the current email manager, btw.) and calc a > difference to be shown in the CC windows columns as > reflection time. The ability to edit the time information is crucial for the IECC user (s). [...] > This is no problem. My own email chess code however works a > bit more automatic than the old scid code and it is modeled > after cmail (probably nobody really knows that though it > comes for ages together with xboard). That is I just extend > the PGN header in completely PGN conformal way. This looks > like this: > > [Event "Email correspondence game"] > [Site "NET"] > [Date "2008.01.23"] > [Round "-"] > [White "xxxxxx, yyyy"] > [Black "zzzzzz, aaaa"] > [Result "*"] > [whiteCountry "ger"] > [blackCountry "ger"] > [WhiteNA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"] > [BlackNA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"] > [Mode "EM"] > [CmailGameName "SomeUniqueKey"] As long as the first seven tag pairs are available, the IECC user(s) should be happy. > As a last point, where I'm not sure about IECC: to transmit > the PGN in question I create an attachment of type > application/x-chess-pgn. It is not sent as inline text but > as a real attachment. This is actually more convenient as > you can just associate this type with whatever application > you want and click on it in your mailer, whereas inline > transmission would require the mailer to pipe the body > through an external program. Of course mail programs like > mutt allow for this, but all this GUI stuff of these days > doesn't know a thing about it. This could be a problem. The IECC does not like attachments. For example, some members play games using their mobile phones to transmit the moves. Some devices may not have an application to associate with the attachment. This said, I do not want to create extra work for you. I use the email manager in scid and it fits my needs. I presently click the "Send email..." button and copy the pgn from scid's message and paste it into my message. Are your changes available in the 3.6.24 RC1 release? If so, I will install it. If not, I'll wait for the final release of the version. Thanks, Cory Cory Helfrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
