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Subject: Re: For Christophe Theron

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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