Are there any chess engines out there that will allow me to add arbitrary amounts of time to their clocks as the game progresses? I am interested in experimenting with two engines playing each other with me manually (or programatically) giving each bonus time throughout the game according to an algorithm I've developed.
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Good question. I don't know of a way to automatically get an engine's move after a certain amount of time, but you'd figure there's a way. Are you using chessbase?– Inertial IgnoranceOct 3, 2019 at 1:04
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Right now it seems my best bet has been with Arena. You can manually add time to the clock with that program but it appears as though if you add it to one player's clock, then it automatically gets added to the other player's clock as well.– Matt CremeensOct 3, 2019 at 10:24
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1One possible solution would be changing their source code yourself if you have experience with programming (assuming the engines are open source like Stockfish). That's probably too extreme though.– Inertial IgnoranceOct 3, 2019 at 16:45
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That's an excellent suggestion and I actually am a programmer by trade, but was worried the task would be too daunting. But perhaps it's worth a try.– Matt CremeensOct 4, 2019 at 11:56
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The C++ code for Stockfish is fairy daunting... lots of bit shifting if I recall :) But if you have experience with the language I don't imagine it'd be too difficult to sift through the code.– Inertial IgnoranceOct 5, 2019 at 5:14
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