Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:13:39 05/23/01
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On May 24, 2001 at 01:59:14, Will Singleton wrote: >On Volker's site (http://www.vrichey.de/cct3), I noticed two Polish programs, >Armageddon Chess and Butcher. If these are known programs, then ignore the >following, and accept my apology. > >If these are unknown programs, and have no track record of server or tournament >play, should they be allowed to play in CCT3? > >Will Another issue involves how the manual programs will play. Having dealt with ICC manual computer operators for several years, I'm concerned that they realize that they shouldn't take an active role in the games. For example, I'd like to make sure that they don't do the following: 1) Select book moves for the program. The program should select its own moves once the game starts, meaning that the operator should not be sitting there with ChessBase for the first 25 moves. The operator should not after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 decide that he wants to see a Latvian, and type f5. If he sets it up that way in advance, no problem, but this kind of reactive thing shouldn't be allowed during the game. 2) Control time allocation. One way to play with a manual program is to let it sit there thinking all the time. The operator makes moves when he thinks it is appropriate. If it's an easy move, it comes fast. If the program looks like it's going to play a bad move, or if the position is tactically complex, the operator lets the program think longer in the hopes that it will find something better. It is hard to run a manual program on ICC without doing something like this, because you can't just select the tournament time control and run, because of operator time and lag. But the operator should be as fair as possible. One possibility is to set the program to run at fixed time per move, and shorten the time per move as necessary as the game goes on. Another possibility is to tell the program to run at a slightly faster time control than is going to happen in the tournament, and hope that you'll accumulate time rather than running out. I'm sure there are other things that we'd all agree the manual operators should not do. bruce
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