Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:58:40 04/20/01
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On April 20, 2001 at 08:38:26, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On April 20, 2001 at 02:56:02, Pete Galati wrote: > >>Did Winboard stop sending the "computer" command? > >From the followup by Mike, it can be seen, that WB did not send the computer. >Only WB versions after 4.0.5 (or 4.0.6) send the computer. > >OTOH, for my private testing, I prefer Crafty seeing not the computer command. >This is not to judge the strength of Crafty, but rather to see more variance in >the games, in the hope, that with this I can see more different problems. > >The computer command can be disabled in the most recent versions of >WinBoard/Xboard. > >Regards, >Dieter The problem with no "computer" command is that crafty will use an inappropriate draw score for one thing. One that can make it lose rather than draw, quite easily... Which is ok against humans... but not for computer vs computer matches where conclusions get drawn...
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