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Subject: Re: Snobbery on ICC servers I cannot get a Game !

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:00:08 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 02:20:39, Andy Serpa wrote:

>On August 26, 1999 at 00:23:54, odell hall wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>  What's the Deal on Icc, it seems practically every computer has some kind of
>>formula, I cannot get a decent game of chess.  Not only does humans refuse to
>>play you if you are a computer, but also computers won't play you. Some of these
>>operators protect their ratings as if they personally earned them themselves! I
>>think the whole matter is getting a little rediculous. I excluse these comments
>>to data, and singacrafty, also superchicken who seem to be generous as far as
>>allowing games with computers.
>
>
>If the computer account was free (the operator is not paying a subscription
>charge for that account), then ICC itself puts restrictions on who and what that
>computer can play.  Only if the person paid for the account can they play
>anybody...

This is incorrect. What you say applies only to free crafty or gnuchess
accounts. See "help crafty" on ICC for details.

Andrew Williams



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