I will play some games against Hiarcs 15.2 with limited strength. To get it a little more stressful in a home environment, I will stream the games to twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/oddgunnar and also play online through lichess-bot. Hiarcs is playing in another room unattended with my engine account PolarChessBot.
I will put all games here after I finish with playing it: https://lichess.org/study/cNpNJiXo/gJywD2iT
The games are played unrated since I use different settings on PolarChessBot and don't want to ruin Lichess' ratingsystem.
My first game is as White with the timecontrol 90 min./g with 30 sec. increment. The setup is with limited strength and elo set to 1700, Book: default Hiarcs15kBook.hcs, Ponder: on
Link to the game: https://lichess.org/lb1IpDeD
Some problem.
New link: https://lichess.org/qhRA4okq
Games against Hiarcs
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Re: Games against Hiarcs
There is something wrong, Hiarcs used 10 sec. per move. I have played before with this setup against Hiarcs 15.1 without problem.
Re: Games against Hiarcs
Found the error.
The Lichess-bot send go movetime 10000 on first move for the engine. This is done to not let the server abort the game if it take too long to make the first move. It shouldn't affect the quality of the moves since Hiarcs is in his book and makes the move instantly. The rest of the moves are started with go wtime .... btime .... with the correct clock time.
Hiarcs seems to be using this as all moves should be played in 10 sec. per move and ignore the time settings for the rest of the moves.
I don't know who has the bug, but anyway I modified Lichess-bot to send wtime/btime on all moves, so the next game should be better. I file a bug report to Hiarcs so they at least know of this problem if they get other complaints about fixed timeusage.