The Chess Clocks
You can pause the running chess clock with Options Pause clock.
The clock will be paused automatically, if you
minimise the Arena window and you are to move
and therefore no engine is calculating at the moment.
The Chess Clocks and Logos Window
This area consists of five subareas for every player.
- (a)The name or the logo
- (b)The clock for the total time
- (c)The clock for the current move
- (d)The flag
- (e)The name of the player or the author of the engine
(a) Here the name of the player will be displayed. If can be yourself, an engine or another
player if the game was loaded from a PGN file.
(b) This clock shows the total available time, if you are in blitz or tournament mode. The time is
counted downward. In all other modes the totally used time is displayed. Then the times used
for every move will be added. The clock counts up.
(c) The clock under that shows the time used for the current move.
(d) The flag will be shown if you selected a country for the engine playing. IF your playing
yourself, you should select a country for yourself under Options/Names/Site. To work, you
have to have the flags installed in the Arena subdirectory Flags. You can switch off the flags
can with Options/Appearance/Display/ Show Flags.
(e) In the remaining lower space the name of the author of the engine is displayed, or the name
of the human. If you want to display the name of the engine you should select under
Options/Appearance/Display 'Show name instead of author'.
Under Options/Appearance/Display you can disable the flags (d) as well as the name/author
(e) display.
The whole window can be hidden with Options/Appearance/Display 'Show clocks and logos'.
You access the pop up-menu with the
right mouse button. If 'Clock paused' is checked, then
the clock does not run at the moment. This is advised for
short breaks. This is the same function as under Options
in the main menu. The clock is paused automatically if the
Arena main window is minimised. If you restore the Arena main
window, the clock runs again. You can select the position
of the clock and logos area here and show the level dialog
from the pop up menu.
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