Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:36:41 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 10:48:47, David Wilke wrote: >I was watching a few games between two computer accounts on ICC last night, and >I noticed that both programs were using Tiger. > >One, I don't see the point in the games, and two, one of the accounts had it in >his finger notes, that he didn't want to play other Rebel Tiger clones. > >The other account was supposed to be using Fritz 6, but his gamestart kibitzes >were that of Rebel Tiger. So really, he was abusing the first account, by lying >about what program he was using, and not respecting the wishes of the other >account. > >I see this happen quite a bit, is there no way to implement a feature to noplay >programs that kibitz the Rebel Tiger II kibitz? > >Crafty has such a feature, and I think it is a great feature. > >Or even better, as the Tiger interface automatically sets the interface >variable, and if I am not mistaken, does it at the start of every game, why not >have Tiger look at the persons variables, to see if it states Tiger is being >used, and then noplay the person if so. I know the interface variable can be >changed.. but what the heck :) > >What most people do not understand is, playing the same program you are using, >usually turns out ot be a hardware battle, and is pointless. I guess kiddies >using daddy's big hardware computer, and the gift theygot for xmas need to show >that their big hardware can beat someone using the same program on lesser >hardware. Geez.. grow up. > >Crafty asks the same of all the Crafty clones. Why shouldn't Tiger expect less. > >Can you imagine 14 Tiger clones competing for the next WCCC? That would be >stupid. > >And if you are all wondering.. no neither of these accounts were mine :P I don't think you can begin to try to understand the psyche of people that run computers on the chess servers. I understand why "authors" do this. It is a great development and debugging approach. But as to why non-authors would spend the amount of time they do to play online? Don't have a clue. I wouldn't do it myself any more than I would spend all day trying to compile all the SPEC programs with a compiler somebody _else_ wrote. Seems pointless to me... Yes, a few are beta-testers. And that makes sense. And yes, a few are "helpers" and that also makes sense. But 99% of the computer operators have no contact of any kind with the author or development team.
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