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Subject: Re: CEGT 40/40 downloads and ratings updated

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 19:19:30 01/18/06

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On January 18, 2006 at 07:32:07, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On January 17, 2006 at 21:34:23, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>Vasik,
>>
>>>I was thinking to have just a "spin" parameter where the tester indicates the
>>>opponent's rating. (Or rating difference ..) All engines could in principle
>>>expose such a parameter.
>>
>>Do you know that the UCI specification already has this feature?  The
>>UCI_Opponent is a standard option that also send the opponents ELO.  While it's
>>part of the spec I don't know of any GUI that actually sends this info - not
>>even the Shredder Classic GUI.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Steve
>
>Steve,
>
>thanks for the info. In this case, if I implement this feature, it will be
>through this command. Testers may need to set it manually (if the GUI doesn't).
>
>Vas


As someone who uses engines mostly on ICS servers, I would love to see this
feature implemented.   Now if there were only also a way to indicate whether
your opponent is human or a (C)omputer :)



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