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Subject: Re: icc obsession

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 18:56:46 03/25/04

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On March 25, 2004 at 21:45:14, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On March 25, 2004 at 20:52:50, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>
>>Winboard always sends the opponent's name to the engine at the beginning of the
>>game, no matter how the game started. So, for example, if you really wanted, it
>>wouldn't be hard to write a little code into your engine to +noplay someone for
>>a while if they are using your engine excessively.
>
>Do you think aborting games on the first move is reasonable solution? Or would
>it just be better to noplay them for a period of time?

I would tend to just noplay them for a while. Remember, you can only see the
last 20 games in your engine's history, and even if you're logging them
somewhere, it's just a waste to have aborted games in there.



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