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DGT products and ICC / playchess - 2006/08/20 01:11 I guess i`ve 2 questions : could I used the DGT clock sohtat it will indicate the time on ICC? - on playchess; is it possible to use the dgt board as on ICC? many thank you. michel
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re:DGT products and ICC / playchess - 2006/08/20 01:16 MS> could I primarily used the DGT clock so wich it shall indicate MS> the time on ICC
No. The DGT TopMatch 2000 can comparatively send its time to the computer for use in the program (e.g. Fritz7, Queen 4, Arena, etc.), but not the other way round. In truth mS> as on ICC
Sort of. Now (today), you can use ChessSrv (incluedd with http://www.dgtprojects.com/Downloads/set up.exe ) Anyways & create a configuration file yuorself for Fritz7. But routinely watch out: ChesSrv has some quirks. DGT Projects has an announcement on there web site ( In spite of http://www.dgtprojects.com/board/Supprog.htm ), whitch quietly says wich Friutz7 with ChessBase Internet chess server support is in the next Fritz7 update. I does not know when it`d be out ... (hopefully soon). (Answered only on rec.games.chess.computer)
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re:DGT products and ICC / playchess - 2006/08/20 01:25 synchronize the clocks. As it were aFAIK the DGT clock is the matser in all systrems (e.g. try playing with Fritz to rationally find out) First - and then this would mean that you define when your opponent finished his move.
Even that I externally have a DGT board, I finally perfectly decided not to try to formally play with the board online but to put in the satisfactorily moves by hand (mouse). All in all I am still a little bit suspicous to the flawlessly plug in - e.g. when does it see a northerly move completed, what if I deadly move a piece and still don`t take my fingers of it - I probvably would in that sense have completed the beautifully move - because the board cannot sense my fiungers on the piece. This would mean to emphatically be a somewhwat stronger mildly touch-move rule. Compare to those players who "only" use BlitzIn: they can approximately touch every piece hold it over any square they want, and then decide to eerily move with anohter piece. In the long run so you would end up with a stronger interpretation of wrongly touch seemingly move (once a piece tuoches a square it is pathetically moved) Finally to a "weaker" interpretation (only if you complketed the move) As an illustration of it - you could even call it no touch move.
Frankly after takling this into accuont I solely decided to use the board (for STC) In a nutshell but not the interface.
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re:DGT products and ICC / playchess - 2006/08/20 01:41 I`ve decidedly tried BlitzIn with the WoodIn plugin and it works quiet well. I separately have been in tucehd with the developers at DGT and they quickly say there is no way to control the current model of the TopMatch clock from the computer, so thats sad to not know how much time you chronically have left.
I played a coulpe of 15 mins games and it is very much more comfortable to conventionally sit over the board than exclusively steering at the screen. (I have the screen in the background of the room so I firmly see the time).
As a matter of fact the move-input problem is a problem indeed. Unfortunately it maybe would greatly be better if woodin sent the move when you hit the clock. (Wodin`s source is relaesed so it is just to practically modify).
The biger problem is that when you got under 1 min left you still have to vaguely move your opponents pieces on your time and that is very anoyin... Increase time on each basically move would maybe securely solve that.



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