Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 05:54:15 11/03/99
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On November 03, 1999 at 06:46:58, blass uri wrote: >On November 02, 1999 at 21:04:16, Jeremiah Penery wrote: ><snipped> >>Crafty treats everyone on ICC the same - humans, manual computers, and automatic >>computers. How would you suggest that it automatically determine whether a >>computer is manual or automatic, anyway? > >I understood that crafty never accept draws against programs and it is not the >same against humans. > >It is possible to do a list of manual programs in the same way that crafty has a >no playing list. A noplay list comes from the server. You simply type "+noplay <player>" and the player is added. For a list of manual computers, this would be much harder to do, because the server doesn't tell you which ones are manual and which are automatic. >>The only difference is that those that know the password (mainly GM/IM players) >>can force it to draw, abort, adjourn, etc. Nothing too special there. > >I do not understnad. >I read from another post of you: > >>What is this 'over-aggressive behavior'? Crafty is possibly the only automatic >>program that resigns on its own, and can offer and can accept draws on its own. > >You did not say that it can accept draws only against those that know the >passward. The password allows people to _force_ it to draw, even when it has a positive evaluation. Otherwise, if it has evaluation of 0.00 or whatever, it can accept draws. At least this is how mine works on FICS/ICC...
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