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(Message started by: jdb on Feb 8^th, 2006, 5:59pm)

Title: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by jdb on Feb 8^th, 2006, 5:59pm

I was trying to add the T time control parameter to clueless and I have some questions. The following is a gamestate file from an actual game using the T parameter.

Quote:

plycount=4
tcmove=15
lastmoveused=60
tcturns=0
wplayer=* bot_clueless_test
turn=w
tcreserve=90
starttime=1139441678
rated=0
wused=0
t=32167
e=jdb
barrived=1139441651
gameId=637650765
timeonserver=1139441897
postal=0
moves=1w Ee2 Me1 Hg2 Hb2 Df2 Dd1 Cc2 Cd2 Ra2 Rh2 Ra1 Rb1 Rc1 Rf1 Rg1 Rh1%131b ha7 db7 cc7 md7 ee7 cf7 dg7 hh7 ra8 rb8 rc8 rd8 re8 rf8 rg8 rh8%132w Cd2n Dd1n Hg2n Ee2n%132b md7s md6s ee7s ee6s%133w Ee3n Ee4w Ed4w md5s%133b ee5w md4e me4e mf4e%134w Hb2n Ec4e Ed4e Ee4e%134b dg7s dg6s mg4e mh4n%135w
s=b
tableId=32167
tcgame=224
roomId=3
lastmovereserve=86
tcmax=0
wpresent=1139441672
title=Game Number: 32167
warrived=1139441672
tcwreserve=125
r=b
position=5w %13 +-----------------+%138| r r r r r r r r |%137| h d c c h |%136| X X |%135| e d m |%134| E |%133| H X C X H |%132| R C D D R |%131| R R R M R R R |%13 +-----------------+%13 a b c d e f g h%13
tcgamenow=224
auth=126279646825
wstartmove=1139441897
timecontrol=0:15/1:30/100/0/1:30/5
tcbreserve=41
tctotal=5400
bplayer=* jdb
tcpercent=100
creattime=1139441649
chat=w 1w: Hi. Im just a bot, so don't try chatting with me.%13My trainer is Jeff Bacher.%13
lastchange=14
tcturntime=300
bused=60
bpresent=1139441651
--END--

Are the following meanings correct?

tcmove Time Control seconds per move
tcturns ?
tcreserve Initial reserve time
tcwreserve White reserve time in seconds
tcbreserve Black reserve time in seconds
tcgame Current length of game in seconds
tcgamenow Same as tcgame?
tctotal Maximum length of game in seconds
tcpercent Percent of time added to reserve
tcmax Max reserve time (if zero reserve unlimited)
tcturntime Max length of turn in seconds (if zero turn time unlimited)

Title: Re: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by omar on Feb 8^th, 2006, 6:48pm

In the time control format:

M/R/P/L/G/T
where M is the number of minutes:seconds per move
R is the number of minutes:seconds in reserve
P is the percent of unused move time that gets
added to the reserve
L is the number of minutes:seconds to limit the reserve
G is the number of hours:minutes after which time
the game is halted and the winner is determined
by score. G can also be specified as the maximum
number of moves.
T is the number of minutes:seconds within which
a player must make the move

In the game state file:

tcmove = M
tcreserve = R
tcpercent = P
tcmax = L
tctotal = G if G was given as a time
tcturns = G if G was given as number of turns
tcturntime = T

tcwreserve White reserve time in seconds
tcbreserve Black reserve time in seconds
tcgame Current length of game in seconds
tcgamenow Do not use; it is usually set to tcgame

In the game state file all times are converted to seconds.

Title: Re: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by jdb on Feb 8^th, 2006, 9:00pm

Excellent. Thanks alot

Title: Re: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by Fritzlein on Feb 9^th, 2006, 8:30am

Oh, does the client get sent the whole set of previous moves after every move? That would explain why my lag seems to get worse (over dialup) later in the game.

Title: Re: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by RonWeasley on Feb 9^th, 2006, 9:01am

It might also be a factor in the Mozilla crashes after about 20 moves.

Title: Re: Meaning of entries in the gamestate file
Post by omar on Feb 9^th, 2006, 11:38am

on 02/09/06 at 08:30:11, Fritzlein wrote:

Oh, does the client get sent the whole set of previous moves after every move? That would explain why my lag seems to get worse (over dialup) later in the game.

Yes, not only the whole movelist but also the whole chat text for the flash client. It's not very efficent. I need to redo the whole client/server system eventually.

Sending a lot of data does not cause the warning message. It's due to the HTTP connection being kept open for a long time.