Author: alfred palang
Date: 01:57:58 08/29/99
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On August 27, 1999 at 23:11:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 27, 1999 at 17:59:33, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On August 27, 1999 at 13:26:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 27, 1999 at 13:07:13, Mark Rawlings wrote: >>> >>>>It would be nice if, say Roman or another GM, agreed to seriously play Crafty a >>>>series of 40/2 games on ICC over the next month or so and report the results. >>>>That would clear up a lot! >>>> >>>>Mark >>> >>> >>>It is very difficult to make this happen, even though I talk to Roman frequently >>>on the phone. IE he would not ask me to spend a half-day working on some >>>program for him, and this is roughly equivalent to asking him to spend a half >>>day playing a 40/2 game. It takes a lot of time. And he is the only one that >>>I would really feel like might accept my request, but I really don't want to >>>put him on the spot like that and force him to say yes or no... >>> >>>Data will slowly become available... >>> >>>Ed is doing a lot to make this happen. >> >>Hi Bob, >> >>I agree it's very time consuming. That's one of the reasons doing it once >>a month. You could do the same? Maybe you underestimate Crafty, who knows! >> >>Ed > > >I would not ask a GM to play 40/2 without offering to pay. And if I offered >to pay, I suspect my wife would have something to say. A _lot_ to say in >fact. :) >I know the feeling :) >But I might ask around... I have played several 40/2 games vs GM players, >but they were logged in as guests, and asked me to _not_ say anything about >the games at all because they wanted to try some opening preparation...
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