Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:04:32 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 21:57:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 20, 2000 at 19:30:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On November 20, 2000 at 19:03:48, Mogens Larsen wrote: >> >>>Btw, do you check comp-comp games for illegal human intervention? >> >>I don't particularly care what people do these days. I just get flabbergasted >>when I hear people say that it's OK to fire up the ol' comp when you play a comp >>account, because that's only fair since otherwise it would beat you. Of course >>it's going to beat you, it's rated hundreds of points higher. Or when people >>say that they have a right to abuse any computer, since the computers are part >>of what they are paying for when they join ICC. This makes as much sense has >>them saying that they have the right to abuse any human player, since they've >>paid their fifty bucks. >> >>It's very hard to tell if someone is cheating with a human in computer vs >>computer games, but if I knew it was happening, I would be bothered. If I'm >>going to play a computer, I should be playing a computer. >> >>I watched an exhibition game between a computer and an IM, and the operator of >>the computer started moving very quickly when the human ran low on time, even >>though he had a lot himself. I thought this was a case of human intervention, >>and it bothered me at the time. >> >>Odd things have happened at other times, as well. >> >>bruce >> >> >>bruce > > >This might or might not be a case of operator intervention. IE Mike Byrne >wrote a time allocation module for Crafty that would do just this. As the >opponent got lower on time, Crafty would move faster to keep the pressure >up, by not giving the opponent long 'thinks' on crafty's clock. > >I fiddle with it every now and then but in general, I don't use it very much >since I don't like the 'concept' particularly. It was some guy running WChess manually. He did a lot of weird things and eventually got banned. I can't remember what he did, but I remember being really mad at the time. bruce
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