Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:40:32 07/30/02
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On July 30, 2002 at 14:45:09, Matthew Hull wrote: >On July 30, 2002 at 14:34:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 30, 2002 at 12:51:39, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >> >> >>It is a list of players on ICC that like to try to block the pawns up >>and then draw. If you add a player to this list, crafty will ramp up the >>blocked pawn scoring (sort of like a super-anti-GM mode) to make it _very_ >>difficult for them to block things up. It might create positional weakness >>in some cases, but it prevents the easier draws that some programs fall into >>over and over... > >Thanks! > >Also, if there are no computers in the "C" list, how does crafty sometimes know >it is playing a computer? Does Xboard give it this information? > >Thanks again, >Matt If you use xboard, it will tell crafty it is playing a computer. If you don't use xboard, then the C list is the way to solve this, again assuming that the interface will at least tell Crafty the name of the opponent... The C list is really obsolete since Tim added support for all of this in xboard several years ago...
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