The Chess Clocks

You can pause the running chess clock with Options arrow 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.

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  • (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.