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Subject: Re: U2600 Club Dec 21 Rating List

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 15:58:54 12/21/98

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Peter,

>
>How about the rest of the U2600 members?  How fast do you search?  Am I the
>slowest in the group?
>

PostModernist usually searches about 45000 nps on my K6/300. (It's written
in C, compiled with pgcc and runs under Linux).

>Grok still has !computer in its formula - but I am almost always watching when
>Grok is online, and if I see a challenge from an U2600 member, I'll be happy to
>accept.  I'm just not interested in playing lots of Crafty clones.

Are you using Xboard? If so, you can use the ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY option:

	setenv ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY 1
	xboard -blah -blah -blah -etc

This will cause your program to abort any game where its opponent kibitzes
"Hello from crafty" at the beginning. (But you must have kib set to 1 for it
to work). I guess there will be a similar feature for winboard, but I don't
know. In general, I've no objection to the odd game from crafty clones (and
I certainly don't mind playing the original), but I've found that some clone
operators on FICS repeatedly rematch my program - 62 times in one night
recently! There's not a lot of point and not much I can learn from my program
being tactically smashed over and over.

>
>Thanks for organizing this club, Will - it's a lot of fun!
>

I couldn't agree more :-)


Andrew Williams



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