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Subject: Re: Lack of draw offers, effecting ratings?

Author: James Long

Date: 20:28:23 11/01/98

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On November 01, 1998 at 22:23:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 01, 1998 at 16:57:26, John Wentworth wrote:
>
[snip]

>
>the problem is not offering draws... it is accepting draws.  If you can't
>do both, then winboard matches will be flawed as you suggest...  Crafty's
>been offering draws for a couple of years, and has been able to accept/decline
>them for about a year...  But "it takes two to tango"...  and most don't do
>both.  In fact, I don't know exactly what xboard/winboard does with adraw
>offer...  I'll have to check.  On ICC it works perfectly...  but maybe not in
>match mode?

It simply forwards "draw" to the engine, which can respond with
"offer draw" to accept, or nothing to decline.

By "match mode" do you mean a local game?  Why would xboard handle
this any differently in ics mode?

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James



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