Author: Will Singleton
Date: 10:39:07 07/01/98
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On July 01, 1998 at 13:21:02, Dan Homan wrote: >As an aside: one case really made me mad. There was this >guy running a crafty clone, YucoII, who kept matching my >program during this time period. 2800 vs 2300 isn't much >of a contest. To make it worse, he was matching 1 0 games >which my program handles poorly because of my coarse time >management. I had my formula set up not to allow rated games >from computers 200 pts or more above me and not to allow >1 0 games. I tried everything, logging out for a while... >then back in. He just kept matching me, successfully - he >must have been using some sort of rematch command to do >it. Anyway it was obvious point grubbing, there was no >interesting chess going on, so I +noplay'ed him. Dan, I had noticed the change in rating; isn't chess programming fun? While the noplay command works wonders, I'm not sure how Yuco could match you when your formula is set to disallow it. I just glanced at your formula, and it seems to contain conflicting terms, so you might verify it. Will
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