3014: Arizona Chess - Revision history

141.101.98.62: Undo revision 370340 by 172.71.219.15 (talk) That's a non-inverted drawing of a thing within the scene that is inverted 'for real'.

2025-03-27T11:27:59Z

Undo revision 370340 by 172.71.219.15 (talk) That's a non-inverted drawing of a thing within the scene that is inverted 'for real'.

172.71.219.15 at 21:01, 25 March 2025

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Asdf: /* Transcript */

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‎Transcript

172.68.205.122: Undo revision 361678 by 172.68.211.102 (talk) What reason?

2025-01-11T20:31:34Z

Undo revision 361678 by 172.68.211.102 (talk) What reason?

172.68.211.102 at 02:57, 11 January 2025

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172.69.214.194: /* Explanation */ check clock -> chess clock

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‎Explanation: check clock -> chess clock

172.71.166.88: /* Explanation */

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‎Explanation

172.69.60.171: /* Explanation */ Grammar fix - I don't know how to do redirects on this wiki, so this is hopefully a temporary one

2024-11-24T02:14:25Z

‎Explanation: Grammar fix - I don't know how to do redirects on this wiki, so this is hopefully a temporary one

172.70.214.166: /* Explanation */ Removed extra space

2024-11-22T19:31:39Z

‎Explanation: Removed extra space

172.71.98.251: /* Explanation */ Added "Navajo Nation which does observe DST". Anyone wanna mention the Hopi, too?

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‎Explanation: Added "Navajo Nation which does observe DST". Anyone wanna mention the Hopi, too?

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-==Overview==
+==Explanation==
 [[White Hat]] and [[Cueball]] are playing a timed game of tournament-style chess. At the start of the comic White Hat has the advantage because, as well as having one more pawn than Cueball, he has more time left to play his remaining moves — 6 minutes and 35 seconds, versus Cueball's 28 seconds, as shown on the {{w|chess clock}} display above them. This means that Cueball cannot afford to consider his moves as carefully as White Hat.

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-==Explanation==
+==Overview==
 [[White Hat]] and [[Cueball]] are playing a timed game of tournament-style chess. At the start of the comic White Hat has the advantage because, as well as having one more pawn than Cueball, he has more time left to play his remaining moves — 6 minutes and 35 seconds, versus Cueball's 28 seconds, as shown on the {{w|chess clock}} display above them. This means that Cueball cannot afford to consider his moves as carefully as White Hat.

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 At this time, White Hat's time remains normal, but Cueball's time "falls back" one hour, giving him 60 additional minutes of play time. White Hat immediately protests, likely trying to communicate that this is not how chess clocks are meant to work. They are fancy timers, tracking how much time each player has used since the beginning of the match, and sometimes, depending on the rules of specific tournament, adding a specified increment of time every turn. They're not supposed to be based on local time, and changing the time remaining during play would certainly be a violation of the rules. Even clocks that do track local time are generally not so carefully calibrated that they would reliably switch times so close to a state line.
-Using the changing local time rather than a monotonically increasing time is generally considered a bug when implementing systems like a chess clock. Most engineering libraries provide both, but the local time is much more complex to implement, and not usually included in a device as simple as dedicated hardware for a chess clock. It could be interesting to find an example of a microcontroller used in a check clock here.
+Using the changing local time rather than a monotonically increasing time is generally considered a bug when implementing systems like a chess clock. Most engineering libraries provide both, but the local time is much more complex to implement, and not usually included in a device as simple as dedicated hardware for a chess clock. It could be interesting to find an example of a microcontroller used in a chess clock here.
 Cueball ignores these protests, and now seems confident of victory, since he has far more play time remaining. Daylight <em>Slaying</em> Time is a pun on Daylight <em>Saving</em> Time, but note that the comic takes place as the non-Arizona clock stops observing DST and joins the Arizona clock in Standard Time. A pun on Daylight Saving Time was also made in [[673: The Sun]].

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	At this time, White Hat's time remains normal, but Cueball's time "falls back" one hour, giving him 60 additional minutes of play time. White Hat immediately protests, likely trying to communicate that this is not how chess clocks are meant to work. They are fancy timers, tracking how much time each player has used since the beginning of the match, and sometimes, depending on the rules of specific tournament, adding a specified increment of time every turn. They're not supposed to be based on local time, and changing the time remaining during play would certainly be a violation of the rules. Even clocks that do track local time are generally not so carefully calibrated that they would reliably switch times so close to a state line.		At this time, White Hat's time remains normal, but Cueball's time "falls back" one hour, giving him 60 additional minutes of play time. White Hat immediately protests, likely trying to communicate that this is not how chess clocks are meant to work. They are fancy timers, tracking how much time each player has used since the beginning of the match, and sometimes, depending on the rules of specific tournament, adding a specified increment of time every turn. They're not supposed to be based on local time, and changing the time remaining during play would certainly be a violation of the rules. Even clocks that do track local time are generally not so carefully calibrated that they would reliably switch times so close to a state line.
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		+	Using the changing local time rather than a monotonically increasing time is generally considered a bug when implementing systems like a chess clock. Most engineering libraries provide both, but the local time is much more complex to implement, and not usually included in a device as simple as dedicated hardware for a chess clock. It could be interesting to find an example of a microcontroller used in a check clock here.

	Cueball ignores these protests, and now seems confident of victory, since he has far more play time remaining. Daylight <em>Slaying</em> Time is a pun on Daylight <em>Saving</em> Time, but note that the comic takes place as the non-Arizona clock stops observing DST and joins the Arizona clock in Standard Time. A pun on Daylight Saving Time was also made in [[673: The Sun]].		Cueball ignores these protests, and now seems confident of victory, since he has far more play time remaining. Daylight <em>Slaying</em> Time is a pun on Daylight <em>Saving</em> Time, but note that the comic takes place as the non-Arizona clock stops observing DST and joins the Arizona clock in Standard Time. A pun on Daylight Saving Time was also made in [[673: The Sun]].

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 [[White Hat]] and [[Cueball]] are playing a timed game of tournament-style chess. At the start of the comic White Hat has the advantage because, as well as having one more pawn than Cueball, he has more time left to play his remaining moves — 6 minutes and 35 seconds, versus Cueball's 28 seconds, as shown on the {{w|chess clock}} display above them. This means that Cueball cannot afford to consider his moves as carefully as White Hat.
-However, Cueball has an unexpected advantage. The building is sited across the border of Arizona with another state (or possibly with the Navajo Nation, which DOES observe DST {{w|Time in Arizona}}), with White Hat on the Arizona side, and the game is being played at a very particular time of year, when (most of) the United States exits {{w|Daylight Saving Time}}, which happens at 2:00 AM on the morning of the first Sunday in November. When this happens, clocks in those other states 'gain' an hour (i.e. they show that an hour less has passed than previously). As Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time (DST), clocks there continue to progress time as normal.
+However, Cueball has an unexpected advantage. The building is sited across the border of Arizona with another state (or possibly with the Navajo Nation, which DOES observe DST, see {{w|Time in Arizona}}), with White Hat on the Arizona side, and the game is being played at a very particular time of year, when (most of) the United States exits {{w|Daylight Saving Time}}, which happens at 2:00 AM on the morning of the first Sunday in November. When this happens, clocks in those other states 'gain' an hour (i.e. they show that an hour less has passed than previously). As Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time (DST), clocks there continue to progress time as normal.
 At this time, White Hat's time remains normal, but Cueball's time "falls back" one hour, giving him 60 additional minutes of play time. White Hat immediately protests, likely trying to communicate that this is not how chess clocks are meant to work. They are fancy timers, tracking how much time each player has used since the beginning of the match, and sometimes, depending on the rules of specific tournament, adding a specified increment of time every turn. They're not supposed to be based on local time, and changing the time remaining during play would certainly be a violation of the rules. Even clocks that do track local time are generally not so carefully calibrated that they would reliably switch times so close to a state line.