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Subject: Re: Australian Computer Chess Championships (Nc3)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:57:48 07/10/98

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On July 10, 1998 at 19:36:21, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On July 10, 1998 at 19:30:09, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>This tournament starts today (11 July) at 11am Australian time, its
>>an 8 player round robin at G30 time control.
>>The tournament is being run on a FICS at chess.anu.edu.au, port 5000 (its an old
>>version of FICS pre timeseal - they wouldn't give us the new one!).
>>Observers welcome.
>>
>>cheers,
>>Peter McKenzie
>>
>>For more details, checkout:
>>http://chess.anu.edu.au/nc3/
>
>I thought that one of the main goals of FICS was to provide a source-code
>available chess server.  Why wouldn't they give you the new one?
>
>Dave Gomboc


Probably because of human nature.  Give out timeseal and a few cheaters will
hack it to give them a time advantage...



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