Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 12:45:17 04/16/00
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On April 16, 2000 at 12:57:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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? Perhaps "they" think you and Crafty are both Freeware... Alessandro
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