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Subject: Re: Parallel Crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:20:31 03/20/98

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On March 20, 1998 at 07:39:30, Leon Stancliff wrote:

>Bob,
>
>Abner (Hiarcs 6 for Mac) has now reached sixth place in the ICC
>rankings. It is running on a MacIntosh G3 275/183 CPU. I would like to
>match it with the best Crafty has to offer in a 4 game match at
>Game/1hour. Since I have been noplayed by the Crafty version on ICC some
>special arrangements would be necessary. Are you interested?
>
>Leon Stancliff


I'm game.  But I don't understand the "noplay" thing.  there are only
two things that get you noplayed on ICC that I know of:

(1) either myself or bert gower notice someone playing and they are
obviously using a computer, but with no (C).

(2) someone plays more than 2 games in a row without telling me.  I have
an automatic feature in my crafty interface that will +noplay anyone
that
plays more than 2 games in succession, unless they ask first.  This was
done to avoid logging on to ICC each day and be greeted by a dozen
messages
from IM/GM players complaining that "XYZ" played 10 games against Crafty
and I couldn't get in to play it, can you do something?"

I have some exceptions to this...  because the people operating these
programs are either programmers working on their own programs or have
asked
me.  Names like ferret, zarkovx, the crazy bishop, knightcap, wchessx
and
others are folks I know and don't mind playing as they rarely play an
extended set of games without breaks.

What is your ICC handle?  I'll fix it.  But to play game/60min I will
have
to set it up specifically for you, as I try to not let crafty play games
that last that long, on a regular basis, due to the aforementioned
complaints.  But I'd be happy to set it up and watch.

It might be a couple of days, as I am expecting my new quad-p6 today or
monday.  I'm starting the reconfig process today, so the machine might
be
up only sporadically until Monday or so...

For fun I'd suggest telling ICC and let them advertise it as well... and
give some thought to whether you want a 4-game marathon or one game per
night for 4 nights or whatever...

one other thing... if you happen to use a "crafty" to play crafty it
will
snag you instantly and noplay you, unless the noplay list fills up.
There
are many crafty operators that match crafty and get hit with this...



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