Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:10:49 09/05/99
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On September 05, 1999 at 17:35:31, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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 > >Yes, I can verify that GM hoffman had kib set to 1 and told one of the >spectators to whisper instead of kibitz, but was ignored and he/she continued to >kibitz! What is bizarre is many of the spectators go through a lot of trouble to >determine whether they can kibitz instead of whisper even though there is no >advantage to kibitz over whispering in that situation. Dumb! If not sure, they >should just whisper, but they act like the dumb ones are the people who whisper >when they don't need to. They don't seem to realize that the purpose of kibitz >over whisper is to be heard by the players TOO. Whisper allows them to be heard >by everyone but the players which is exactly what they want. I will ask Andy from ICC to do something to the problem next time. Andy wasn't present during the Rebel-Hoffman game. If memory serves me well there was hardly any kibitz during the previous games. Ed Schroder
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