Author: pete
Date: 11:26:39 07/18/99
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On July 17, 1999 at 11:41:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 16, 1999 at 11:04:24, Pierre Bourget wrote: > >>How to start an engine to have an evaluation of a position from a game i am >>observing on Fics or ICC .Is it possible ? Any orther program can do that ? >> >>Pierre > > >No. > >I did some patches to do that a while back. Vincent did also and still uses >his. I didn't release my patches because of the obvious cheating potential, >where you can play a game, log on in another window and let a program observe >and you get analysis with no time lost switching back and forth. This is why >my custom crafty interface was never released as well. Cheating is already >far more common that most people believe. This would make it become even more >common... Actually this is an answer to the original question I can't find anymore . I know only one commercial chess program that can do that : Chess System Tal >2.0 ; the programmer also find a way to make it _extremely_ difficult to cheat with it IMO ; when they show grandmaster games at ICC it is my favourite interface. Pete
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