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

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 11:50:13 02/05/03

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On February 05, 2003 at 12:51:17, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:

>On February 05, 2003 at 12:48:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Yes, you're right! And that is the point why i public 2 versions. One with and
>one without kibitz & CO.
>
>DAniel

Surely anyone who wants to use it to cheat will just download the version with
these features? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're saying?

Andrew



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