Author: Pete R.
Date: 09:21:17 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 11:36:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. I considered having a computer account to experiment with various opening lines, to investigate openings I have an interest in. In such case of course I couldn't care less about ratings, only results, but I suspect most of these guys just want to get big ratings. *shrug*
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