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Subject: Re: To all Commercial Chess Programmers

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 10:15:54 03/27/99

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On March 27, 1999 at 11:06:31, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On March 27, 1999 at 02:02:06, Adnan wrote:
>
>>(2) If someone wants to let Rebel or Fritz play on ICC, the interface should
>>check whether or not the person is connected to ICC with an account that has (C)
>>in it. If he is not connected to ICC with a (C) account, the interface should
>>warn the person and not let the engine play on ICC.
>
>This is an interesting idea, it wouldn't be hard to do, and ICC might help if
>you asked this.
>
>It is hard to cheat with automatic programs because they have a very distinctive
>time usage signature.
>
>bruce


And even amateur programs can be strong. :)  I had planned, when my prog got
strong enough, to release it with an interface that would allow server play, but
would simply check to see if the account has a (C).  Seems simple enough, but
maybe I'm missing something.

Will




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