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Subject: Ooops. Forgot one...

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 13:41:12 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 16:39:38, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 16:34:51, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>Does anyone remember if there was a reason for this rule in CCT?
>>
>>Q: Are there manually playing allowed?
>>A: No. Only playing with an autoplayer-interface eg. winboard or other are
>>allowed.
>>The following informations must be shown during the game: evaluation, depth and
>>predicted moves .
>>Additionally, it will be nice if bookmoves or tablebasemoves will be shown.
>
>I can't remember the precise reason, but these are all good reasons:
>
>(1) It allows a greater range of time controls
>(2) It prevents mistakes and the need to restart
>(3) Requires a certain ICC "maturity" in the engines that take part
>(4) Engines are required to kibitz an "search result" string after every move
 (5) Prevents operator interference (coupled with (4))
>

>I think maybe number 4 was the reason but I can't remember.
>
> Andrew


Andrew




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