Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:50:47 07/20/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 11:22:50, Andrew Dados wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 09:24:18, Michel Langeveld wrote: > >>>The more complicated matching someone when idle by doing some zippy hack is much >>>less offending probably ( you can even limit number of times you try on someone >>>) but the rematch leaves the opponent without defence against your challenge . >> >>It's possible to say to icc/zippy(can't remember) it must not do more x in a row >>games against a opponent. In this way chess engines can presume the aren't >>played "dead" by rematch commands. >> >>Thanks for your answers... now it's clear to me how to build a icc-user-polite >>hack. > >Just for the record: fragment of ICC 'help computer' file: > >4) Computers should not issue unsolicited "match" commands. Humans who >don't want to play computers find that annoying. Computers are welcome >to issue "seek" commands, accept "match" commands, and issue "rematch" >commands. > >[...] > >-Andrew- I think they mean that comps shouldn't match humans, not other comps. I think we all match each other quite regularly. Will
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