Author: Peter Hegger
Date: 11:20:39 09/05/99
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On September 05, 1999 at 13:45:45, Andrew Williams wrote: >On September 05, 1999 at 13:14:43, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>Hello >>I noticed as I've watched the last few GM challenges with Rebel at ICC that >>their are lots of people "kibitzing" analysis, comments etc... instead of >>"whispering" while the game is in progress. They are always quickly told >>"whisper don't kibitz" by the other spectators. >>I can see where this would be a problem if the GM had "setkib 1" and could see >>lots of juicy analysis from Fritz, Crafty and the gang. But surely if there is >>an arbiter present at the site of the GM, he's not going to let the GM set his >>kibitz to see all this. So is there really a problem here? >>Regards, >>Peter > >You can do "vars gmwhoever" to see what the GM's kib variable is set to. >GM Hoffman had kib set to 1, which means he could see everything being >kibitzed. Therefore it makes sense to whisper instead of kibitz. In an ideal >world, someone would make sure that kib=0 for the GM. But since this wasn't >the case, and since it is just as easy to whisper as it is to kibitz, and >since it's a bit rude to kibitz on a human's game and since we're all desparate >to see this series of games continue, I think it's not unreasonable to ask >spectators to use whisper. > >Best regards > >Andrew Hello Andrew Thanks for the info. I fully agree that kibitzing in a game involving a human is crass. But I would have thought the arbiter would see to it that the GM wasn't receiving outside help in this case, however inadvertent it might be. Quite often someone would be kibitzing the next 12 ply of Fritz' analysis before being hushed. This gives the GM an unfair advantage. I think their are a couple of solutions. The first would be to have the ICC software guys come up with a "nokib" setting for the interface which allow whispers only during specified games. The other solution would be to have the arbiter enforce the kib=0 rule for thje GM. Anything else is giving the GM an unfair advantage. Regards, Peter
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