Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:51:26 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 11:57:47, Garry Evans wrote: >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. > > > Perhaps these people simply enjoy watching Computers play chess? I do not see >why it is so hard to understand why people would find it interesting to watch >computers play chess. That isn't it. Otherwise they would just connect to ICC and observe one of the dozens of computer vs computer games _already_ in progress. I have never seen a period of time where there were no computer games already in progress... There is more to it than that..
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