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Subject: Re: *** New Winboard version 4.3.0 *** released

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:48:42 02/05/03

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On February 05, 2003 at 12:32:52, George Sobala wrote:

>On February 05, 2003 at 11:47:49, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>On February 05, 2003 at 02:08:02, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:
>>
>>>Whats new:
>>
>>>* New analyze function: You can now analyze observe games on a InternetServer
>>>  and put output to channels, games and people.
>>>  (See option->ICS settings)
>>
>>Others have done something similar too, but didn't make it public because it
>>would be a powerful tool for cheating at internet chess servers.
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Steffen.
>
>Well there are at least two commercial GUIs that already allow active analysis
>of observed games (ChessPartner and Chess Assistant). So why not one under the
>GPL?


As he said, it simply makes it easier to cheat.  _another_ way to cheat,
particularly one
that is _free_, is not necessarily a good thing.




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