Author: Will Singleton
Date: 11:26:48 09/06/99
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On September 06, 1999 at 13:54:23, James Robertson wrote: >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 I believe it traps for the message "hello from crafty". I do the same thing in my interface, without the noplay. Seems to me the noplay is not a good idea, because then you can't easily re-enable clone play. Better would be to set a condition where the interface would decline match offers from a clone, once recognized. Will
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