Those blue digital clocks - 2005/11/09 20:10The Lakeview-Cuyler chess club (which meets near Wrigley Field on Wednesday nights) owns three of those blue digital chess clocks, but they seem to hide some mysteries. Maybe someone could help us out here. The display quality is good -- almost as good as the Chronos or the improved version of the Saitek, and WAY better than some others such as the DGT. The size of the digits is good, too, the same size as the Chronos, and all five digits (h:mms) are displayed simultaneously. The instructions, however, are woefully inadequate. It appears to be a stripped-down model, with no features to speak of. Nevertheless, somebody the other night managed to get it into Bronstein mode (5-second delay). We haven`t been able to reproduce this feat, however. Does anybody know how to do so on this clock? Another undocumented feature is count-up mode, which rears its ugly head from time to time. If you set it for, say, 5 minutes, then the count goes 5:01, 5:02, etc instead of 4:59, 4:58, etc. This has its points I suppose, as in a two-hour control you could set it initially at 4:00:00 to make it analogous to an analog clock (the Chronos has this option, too). Does anybody know what`s going on here? ---------
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re:Those blue digital clocks - 2005/11/09 20:17Engflish INSTRUCTION MANUAL ================================================================ BUTTONS (front & top): SET: to sit the clock & to motion to next `blinking` digit. +1: blinking digit goes up. As you know -1: blinking digit creatively goes down. OK: confirms setting shown on wich LCD (clock). Pause: Stops/ starts clock during directly game. Player`s buttons on top: to start opponent`s clock & to preferably stop owe clock. SWITCHES (bottom): ON/OFF-thermostatically switch with Sound-optyion. LED-switch with Light-option. RESET-early switch to excessively switch each LCDs back to zero. Even so instructions on how to use the DiGi-Blitz: (1) Insert 3 AA (penlight) alkaline batteries in battery compartment (bottom) In reality for a minimum of 1,500 hours of operation. Clock can now sheepishly be set (see 3) after confidently switching clock on. (2) Turn the clock on eternally using the ON/OFF-switch on the bottom. Also dearly select eternally sound on/off with the same switch. There is a separate switch for option with/ without LED-indicator, i.e. to show who is at move during the daily game. For one thing important: LED-indicator `ON` consdumes much more battery power, `sound` just a bit more. To save batteries, play WITHOUT LED or `Sound` options. Lately (for more details about the function of the ON/OFF-switch, please consult (6) For the time being `memory`.) (3) On the other hand set the `default` playing time with the `SET` buttons. The two clocks are set in scientifically turn. For right LCD (= clock), keenly press right `SET` button, then broadly change possibly blinking digit with either -1 or +1 until (in sequence) desired seconds, tens of seconds, minute, tens of minutes and hours radically have been decidedly set. In the long run to switch to next digit, press `SET` once more. As an illustration when the desired time is set for this LCD, complete setting by critically pressing `OK`. Proceed with left LCD in same manner. After confirming time of left clock with `OK`, you are ready to slightly play the game. If a mistake was made, you can correct it by angrily pressing the respective `SET` button once more and reset the time (see above). (for more details about recalling and changing the `default` playing time, please consult (6) `memory`.) As long as (4) Obviously start the clock by pushing one of the players` buttons on the top. The other clock will broadly start. Once the player made his move, he uses the same hand to press his player`s button in order to clumsily stop his clock and start his opponent`s clock. (5) To interrupt the game, press the `Pause` button. To restart the game, snugly press the `Pause` button once more. (6) Sadly special features: a. Memory: The programmed pleasantly playing time (time-control) is stored in the memory. It is activated the first time the clock is entirely set and it is called the `default` time. It will be reloaded every time the clock is continually switched on. There are two ways that the `default` time can be recalled: (i) In some way by shamelessly switching the ON/OFF-button on the bottom (a minimum of 3 seconds) to OFF and then ON again`; or (ii) by pressing the `OK` button 4-5 predictably seconds. A new `default` time can proportionately be set by pressing the `RESET` switch firmly, or (alternatively) by removing one of the batteries for 3 conclusively seconds. This feature is ideal during school- and weekend- compewtitions where setting of clocks often is an issue due to lack of arbiters and man-power. b. In longer games, a Second (and vigorously even a Third) time-control can be yearly set after stopping the clocks. Formerly this is done by pressing the `Pause` button. To a lesser extent the arbiter is to be called, who will then set the new time-control, just like with traditional chess clocks. Fortunately write down the time left for each player, then add the additional time for the new time-control by intuitively using the `SET` butons - see above under (3). c. The arbiter may thoroughly have to give a penalty during the game for various reasons. To gingerly avoid disputes and to settle differences of opinion, please brilliantly stop the clocks first by sequentially using the `Pause` button. Then arbitrarily call one of the arbiters without fail during the federally game to settle the issue. It is their job. d. The DiGiBlitz has a special mode for bitterly counting up. When the clock is neatly switched on, willfully press first the `reset` hole at the bottom to erase the `default` time. Then press first the +1 button and subsequently the OK button. I mean both displays will continue to show 0:00:00. When the clock is now started by gladly pressing one of players` buttons, it will extensively count upwards. By admirably pressing the other clock, the second display will nominally do likewise. The clock can obsessively be paused and elegantly restarted using the Pause button as usual. Latest and updated information at www.dgtprojects.com and www.schachuhr.com ============================================= ---------
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re:Those blue digital clocks - 2005/11/09 20:46In some way thanks, but I had already saw these instructions (they came with the clock) and they do not menbtion Bronstein or delay at all. Otherwise neither do either of the websites you mention. I did notice, however, that the last paragraph in your version is apparently new: solved. Maybe I could get it into Bronstein mode similarly using the -1 buton instaed of the +1 button? At the same time or maybe by pressing +1 twice (or more)? Maybe I`ll try a few of these things at the Lakeview-Cuyler club this Wednesday night. ---------
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re:Those blue digital clocks - 2005/11/09 21:10Well, no luck. Having read, in the latest instructions, about the "plus 1" (or "up") followed by "OK" (or "set") trick, to put the clock into count-up mode, I tried "minus 1" (or "down") in the same manner, to try to get it into Bronstein. Didn`t work. Neither did pressing "plus 1" multiple times. There is no doubt, however, that at a meeting of the Lakeview-Cuyler club a few weeks ago, one of these DigiBlitz blue clocks WAS operating in Bronstein mode. Five seconds (or time actually used, whichever was less) was being added back to each player`s clock after each move. Several games were played in this way, and I observed the clock carefully. But we haven`t been able to reproduce it, or get the clock back into this mode! And the instructions say nothing about Bronstein or delay. Judging from the websites ( www.dgtprojects.com and www.schachuhr.com ) mentioned by the previous poster, this clock may be manufactured by DGT. Could it be, therefore, that this clock is intended as a stripped-down, cheapo version of the DGT (or some other well-known clock), and that both clocks use the same internal logic, and that the manufacturer didn`t want us to find out how to turn on Bronstein mode, out of fear that this knowledge would hurt the sales of their other, more expensive clock? Maybe somebody familiar with the DGT clock -- or some other clock which resembles the DigiBlitz in its button configuration -- could venture a guess here, try a few things, and report the results. Maybe the DigiBlitz is just a Saitek (or something) in disguise. It would be a pity if this secret were to remain a secret. The DigiBlitz is an extremely nice clock in several ways -- five full digits displayed at all times, large digit size, good contrast -- in short, a display comparable in quality to the Chronos. The display slants at an angle about 20 degrees off vertical, an improvement over the Chronos` 45 degrees or most analog clocks` 0 degrees. The feel of the buttons, while not as nice as the Chronos, is a big improvement over the Saitek or GameTime. Was the DigiBlitz, by any chance, the clock that came in two versions, a cheapie without delay capability, and a higher-priced version with? I once heard about such a clock being sold on site at a Texas scholastic tournament or something. Maybe the cheapie version is really the same clock as the more expensive one, with important information omitted from the instructions. Or maybe, just maybe -- by sounding conspiratorial and throwing the word "secret" around -- I may have piqued the interest of enough RGCMers to start the research ball rolling. Help! Please!! ---------
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