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Subject: Re: ChessPartner and ICS - problems .....

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 22:17:06 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 23:43:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 25, 2000 at 11:09:36, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>This could happen because the prompt does not end in a % symbol. In that
>>case when you login as guest you have the default FICS% prompt and
>>all works fine, but login into your own account which may have a nonstandard
>>promt gives the problem.
>>
>>Lex
>
>
>
>If you need a particular prompt, why not set it yourself when you first
>connect, to avoid this?  I have seen this happen to other interfaces in the
>past (ziics a long time ago when I was using it) but Don fixed it when it was
>pointed out as a problem.
>
>also you should set the 'interface' variable for sanity...  it lets the
>opponent know you are running a chess program.  IE winboard does
>set interface "winboard 4.0.7 + crafty" or whatever...  which really helps
>to let everyone know this is a computer, rather than acting like a 'stealth
>computer' which is not uncommon nowadays.  I think interface authors should do
>everything possible to prevent cheating when possible...  although 100% is
>impossible with a smart human operator that understands all the ICC commands.
>But it will help with the majority of potential 'cheaters'...


It's on my list for the next version.

Lex




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