While doing some test tournament at a fast mps (20sec/40moves) time control, I noticed that SlowChessClassic 1.9
is somehow buggy for this tc. It uses already above 75% of available time for the first three moves after book/start position end.
This was under CuteChess and installed as xboard engine! I haven't tested it as UCI yet, quite possible it doesn't understand
base time below one minute, IIRC that was a limitation of older versions of the protocol?
Here are two examples:
[Event "Test_20200305"]
[Site "RWBC Win7U-64 Q8200 2.33Ghz Nvidia GT 710"]
[Date "2020.03.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "LC0_0240rc2-ID591226"]
[Black "SlowChessBlitz_Classic19-64"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Opening "Benko's Opening"]
[PlyCount "176"]
[Termination "adjudication"]
[TimeControl "40/20"]
1. g3 {book} e5 {book} 2. c4 {book} c5 {book} 3. Nc3 {book} Nc6 {book}
4. d3 {+0.48/3 0.54s} Be7 {-0.16/19 5.53s} 5. Bg2 {+0.48/4 0.46s}
Nf6 {-0.16/19 5.38s} 6. e3 {+0.56/5 0.60s} O-O {-0.08/16 5.25s}
[Event "Test_20200305"]
[Site "RWBC Win7U-64 Q8200 2.33Ghz Nvidia GT 710"]
[Date "2020.03.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "SlowChessBlitz_Classic19-64"]
[Black "LC0_0240rc2-ID591226"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Opening "Benko's Opening"]
[PlyCount "416"]
[TimeControl "40/20"]
1. g3 {book} e5 {book} 2. c4 {book} c5 {book} 3. Nc3 {book} Nc6 {book}
4. Nf3 {+0.28/19 5.51s} d6 {-0.29/3 0.54s} 5. Bg2 {+0.16/18 5.78s}
Nf6 {-0.33/4 0.54s} 6. d3 {+0.20/18 5.23s} h6 {-0.34/5 0.55s}
7. h3 {+0.24/10 0.33s} Be6 {-0.20/4 0.53s} 8. b3 {+0.24/8 0.24s}
