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

Author: Daniel Mehrmannn

Date: 12:16:27 02/05/03

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On February 05, 2003 at 14:50:13, Andrew Williams wrote:

>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
You can *not* download the version which makes kibitz/tell/whisper :-)
No Webserver/Ftpserver public this Version. You can get it from me, Uli Tuerke,
Volker Pittlik... and so on. All this people have to take a eye which person ask
for it. It's trust - not more. But i hope we are good people B-))

greatings DAniel



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