Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 15:33:47 09/11/98
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On September 11, 1998 at 13:56:16, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >Hi Bob, > >I too have found Auto232 in Windows to be a right pain in the a***, and I like >your idea of setting a better and easier standard. I would like to help, but I >doubt that I would be much use, as I am a self-taught programmer and have >virtually no experience of programming communications. However, even if I am an >ignoramus in this department, I would like to be kept informed so I can >(hopefully) make my program compatible with the new standard. > >I think it would be best if the new standard did not require a third computer to >act as a server or "tournament controller", or at least if this was optional, >since anyone running a computer chess tournament with a limited number of >machines available (eg FSV Summer98 tournament) wants to run as many games as >possible concurrantly. If a third computer is needed for communications, it >means that machine cannot be used for playing another game of the currant round. > >Best wishes, >Roberto You are right that a third machine acting as an arbiter should be optional, for people who run the games in their house. But for a tournament it is neccesary. Also, you do not need a third machine for every game, you only need one machine as an arbiter for all the games (and it could very well be and old machine).
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