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Subject: Re: kibs in 211

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:59:46 02/03/03

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On February 03, 2003 at 03:34:51, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On February 02, 2003 at 23:11:21, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>Also, the + always for white vs + for side on move is annoying.
>>
>>I personally prefer + for side on move, since I tend to think of +
>>as "better", rather than having to translate to a color.
>>
>>I'm not asking anyone to change their orientation, but when kibbing
>>it would be helpful to know what a "+" score means.
>
>The obvious solution would be to do it the way LambChop does it.. that is,
>saying for what side the score is. "1.2 for white" or "2.5 for black" is
>absolutely clear for everyone. Why not more people use this scheme escapes me.
>
>If 3 or more engines post their eval in the 211 channel and they don't have the
>same meaning for + and - scores, half of the tells in this channel will be a
>discussion what means what for what engine - making the 211 channel useless for
>me at least.
>
>Sargon
>
>PS. Oh yes, and the filtering-scheme on ICC could be improved too - as long as
>we can't filter messages individually, 'set kibitz 2' is a must :(


Actually you can filter selectively.  It is called "+censor".  But there were so
many
morons producing noise it was quite a chore to censor them all...



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