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Subject: Re: Australian Computer Chess Championships (Nc3)

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 06:44:26 07/11/98

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On July 10, 1998 at 19:57:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

I see. :)

Maybe they could give the new source, minus the timeseal implementation.  Of
course, that assumes that it is separable.

Dave Gomboc



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