Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:36:06 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 13:55:23, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On January 25, 1999 at 12:36:51, Ren Wu wrote: > >>I don't like to let my program play any clones, either in the server or in a >>tournament. I may play some crafties if they say it is a crafty running on a >>different hardware, but i will not play those program who claim it is not crafty >>because they change the compiler switch, add/delete 1 line of code, or whatever. >> >>The flood of crafties is one of the main reason kill my interests to play at >>chess server fics. > >I like the clones on the chess servers. > >There are a lot of them, and it makes other programs kind of hard to see, and it >makes it harder to get games, but the up-side is that there is always something >strong out there for you to play, if you want to, and the people who run the >clones help Bob in many other ways, and some may become interested enough to >write their own programs. > >Some of them make modifications such as changing the opening book, which is an >interesting experiment, and some of them have changed the code to some degree. > >There have also been cases where these people have decided that they don't want >to be just another guy running Crafty, so they run something else. Several >amateur and even professional programmers have people running their program for >them and I assume sending them games and impressions. So this is developing an >enthusiastic and free (!) tester pool that we can all make use of if we wish. > >It's also spurred development of winboard, which has had to get better since so >many people are using it to run Crafty, so now anyone can use it more easily. > >It's the live tournaments that worry me. I don't mind having twenty of them >sitting there on the server, but I don't want to fly half way around the world >in order to play Crafty five times in eleven rounds. > >bruce HEY!! Neither do _I_. :) (can you spell Jakarta, for example?) :)
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