Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:07:04 10/14/97
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On October 14, 1997 at 13:53:31, Amir Ban wrote: >Calm down Bruce. Nobody asked you to change the program. The plan is to >make fudging by operator: > >a) Unnecessary >b) Illegal > You probably missed a post of Bruce's, but in reality, he uses the fudge factor of entering remaining time - 5 minutes. Which would suddenly become illegal, a week before the tournament, and require programming changes that might well blow up at an inconvenient time. Others use this same fudge. In fact, I'd bet that at least 50% of the programs I watch do this. I don't do it in Crafty, because I didn't do it in Cray Blitz after a few glitches caused by a "helper" entering a move or two while I was away on a restroom break, and when asked about the clock, he was "honest" and screwed the timing up quite a bit near the time control... But just because I accept the real clock time and adjust it internally to account for a user-settable operator time doesn't mean the rules should suddenly be changed at the last minute to force this. Doesn't hurt me at all, but it would others. And the nonsense about the opponent demanding that the clock be set is just that, nonsense. He can watch to make sure that nothing untoward happens, but to require program changes at this late date or to let the opponent dictate when you must do something makes no sense at all... And it seems a bad practice, in general, to jump into the rulebook and start rewriting things at the last minute. That's the whole reason Bruce and I play on the chess servers all the time: to appear at events like paris with a robust chess program. It won't be so robust if last-minute changes are required, with little time to exercise them before "showtime."
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