Author: Brian Richardson
Date: 04:51:05 04/29/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 22:17:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On April 28, 2000 at 17:54:32, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>Occasionally Tinker gets matched in an unrated game on ICC. This is not usually
>>a problem, but recently a user (Diamond) has been playing numerous unrated games
>>against many programs at standard time controls.
>>
>>I am curious because I have useformula=1, rated=1, formula=rated &... and
>>manualaccept=1 settings, so I am wondering why it does not decline them (before
>>even getting to Winboard)?
>
>
>there is a trick to bypass formula, if you do it before the formula is set.
>I just match you unrated, before you decide to stop playing unrated games. I
>play, and then win or lose, I just type 'rematch'. This ignores your formula
>since you just finished a game, and the server assumes "if you played one game
>in violation of your formula, you are willing to play another."
>
>All he has to do is play a couple, then adjourn in the middle, then resume it
>tomorrow and continue this... day after day... If you watch an notice him
>win or lose a game, try +noplay right after the game ends. The next day,
>remove the noplay although he will now have to go by the formula and can't
>play unrated any more.
Thank you for the quick reply. I am not 100% sure what you mean by "before the
formula is set". I very rarely change the "set formula = rated...". So an
unrated game should not get started after a rated game (even against a different
opponent?) with the same formula, right? Or, might you mean "set" as in parsed
and tested by the ICC server for each opponent? I'm thinking this is rather
unlikely, but perhaps with the manualaccept (to allow zippymaxgames or other
zippy options), Winboard just accepts in rare cases before the ICC server
declines. Normally there are numerous automatic declines where the message
cites the formula. In any case, there is always "noplay", but I really prefer
not to.
Incidentally, with zippynoplaycrafty (until Tinker is even close to
competitive), the noplay list with just Crafty clones has gotten rather long:
AnatKarp DrVigilante KillerGrob MysticWarrior TolkienX
BoeserOnkel egghead KyFats poodledough undertaker1
Brause Eza Mashiach SuperChicken Weezer
did Feisty MrPeabody TITANS
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