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Subject: Re: What Happened To Crafty(C) Rating At ICC ?

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 11:43:40 03/19/04

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On March 19, 2004 at 14:40:16, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On March 19, 2004 at 08:15:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>this "stuff" has evolved over time.  it is not particularly new, so "most" of >it was certainly "on" back then...
>
>Sorry "stuff" should have been replaced with code.
>
>I remember when 16.19 was out there was special code to block a player named
>mercilous. I assume this is when the anti-human code started, but again I could
>be wrong.
>
>Would changing the "style" that Crafty uses against computers help at all?
>Changing how it uses the book and scoring?

There used to be three internal lists a user could maintain, one for accounts
known to be strong humans (IM, GM), one for blockers (i.e. mercilous) and one
for computers, though I think the latter is handled through other means now.


>
>Peter



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