Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 11:58:52 07/04/04
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On July 04, 2004 at 13:59:26, Frank Phillips wrote: >On July 04, 2004 at 13:15:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>We offered a draw around move 80, but the Fritz team wanted >>to keep on playing despite having no real winning chance, >>apparently to try to outplay my novice operator on time. >> >>He would have none of it :) My congratulations to Avi Shatz. >> > >This (and Uri's post about time management) seem to indicate that it would be >advantageous to run an on site fics chess server and remove the need for humans >to move the pieces for the machine. I have forgotten why the need for humans to >move real pieces is not as mind-bogglingly stupid as it first appears. Give them some time. Maybe in about 5 years they will introduce 'autoplayer' via serial ports. ;) >Hey, the >games could be even be relayed through ICC and FICS to people interested in >computer chess ;-) While that would be nice, I'm sure that the mini-FICS wouldn't be reachable from the outside, as ChessBase wants to promote playchess.com. Sadly, people w/o Windows can't follow the games at all. :( Sargon
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