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Subject: Re: qu: how to avoid crafty clones on ICC?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 10:54:23 09/06/99

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On September 06, 1999 at 10:58:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 06, 1999 at 06:39:24, Inmann Werner wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>dont get me wrong. I like Crafty and it is a wonderful program....
>>But I hate, when I am on ICC, always get played by Crafty Clones so they can
>>climb their rating. This games do not help me much, always the same stuff...
>>To noplay them is much work, they are so many and always new one.
>>
>>Steffen told me, that their is a possibility in Linux to avoid Crafty clones. Is
>>there also a possibility with Winboard and Win95??
>>
>>Can anybody help?
>>
>>Werner
>
>
>Yes.. if you are using xboard 4.0.2 or later...  just add
>
>ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY=1
>
>however you have to to get it into the "environment" for winboard.  Winboard
>will automatically detect crafty clones, abort the game, and +noplay the
>program.
>
>in unix
>
>setenv ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY 1

How does it detect Crafty clones? Does it look in their finger notes? :)

James



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