Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:18:09 11/17/02
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On November 17, 2002 at 04:19:47, Sune Fischer wrote: >On November 17, 2002 at 00:39:52, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>I really find the whole kibitzing of programs, or the fact they _need_ to be >>automated is going to leave out most of the competition. > >A team of world class programmers should have no trouble implementing this >feature in their GUI if they so desired, so it really sounds like on poor excuse >to me. > >I think the tournament might be uninteresting to them for other reasons, they >risk not winning (yes they do!), and that could/would be bad publicity. Perhaps >their marketing department don't want to take the chance? > >Anyway, programs that don't kibitz, isn't that quite boring? > >>This of course includes all ChessBase products as well as some amateurs as well. > >Too bad, there are some fine gui's out there, time to support one of them >perhaps :) > >>Can this not be changed? Obviously you can tell when a program is automated by >>how fast it can make the opening moves and such. >> >>The Ebbi adapter for Chessbase works well. I say let the programs that need to >>use it enter. Those that kibitz fine.. if they don't that is fine as well. >> >>To me that rule is rediculous, and is only going to kill this fine tournament. > >Not kibitzing would take the fun out of it IMO, constantly you get those "tell >me, what does program X think now?" questions from the observers. Does every winboard program that support the post command can kibitz without more programming effort? What about book moves? Does the program need to support the bk command? Uri
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