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Subject: Re: What's optimal hashtable size for different time controls?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:57:35 04/16/00

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On April 16, 2000 at 00:12:11, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>
>That's how I read it, because personally I have never logged on ICC. I do not
>even know how it works.
>
>I'm sorry that people play too many games against Crafty with Rebel-Tiger, but
>that's totally out of my control.
>
>
>    Christophe


If you had read my comments as directed toward you, you would have _really_
been off-base.  For the longest, the biggest problem I had on the servers was
folks setting up crafty clones, then playing me, something I have no interest
in seeing whatsoever.  As a result, I would end up with 300 logs of crafty vs
crafty and no GM games at all.  I finally sent Tim Mann some xboard/winboard
patches that would recognize when it was playing crafty vs crafty and auto-
matically abort and noplay the opponent.  In the case of Tiger, I don't want to
noplay it, because the games are often interesting, just so there aren't too
many of them, displacing human players.  I could easily fix xboard to noplay
any tiger clone, but I don't want to avoid tiger totally.  I just don't want to
play _only_ tiger on ICC, since it is apparently easy to set up to run there,
just like winboard/xboard/crafty is.

I do find it interesting that people think that I am obligated to play anybody
or anything that wants to play me.  Humans don't do that on the servers, why is
my program obligated to do so?



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