Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:29:11 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 13:01:10, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 19, 1999 at 11:27:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 19, 1999 at 08:18:27, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On October 18, 1999 at 22:40:44, Will Singleton wrote: >>> >>>>Incidentally, it's a shame some of the other good progs that play on fics aren't >>>>available on ICC. There's Heiko Mikala's program, plus jrcp (Insomniac), >>>>Fortress, and others. All of these have really improved and are getting strong. >>> >>>IMO, it's a shame that most of the good programs that play on ICC don't play on >>>FICS. FICS has a better rating system for online play, which is also not >>>inflated by some 300+ points on the high end. Also, there are many who simply >>>can't afford to play on ICC (I am one.), even though it is 'only' $50 or less. >>> >>>Jeremiah >> >> >>I have "scrappy" running on FICS all the time (except for the last week as I >>have been letting Vincent use it to test his parallel search for an upcoming >>tournament). >> >>I don't run 'crafty' there a lot for two reasons: (1) there are far more GM >>players on ICC, and they are the targets that are interesting; > >True. :( > >> (2) FICS has a really bad 'computer cheating' problem. > >I've never noticed this. In any case, I'm sure the problem exists at ICC also. >It just may not be as noticable, or quite as proportionately large. What does >ICC do to help prevent this that FICS doesn't do? > >Jeremiah Probably they charge 50 bucks a year, which prevents so many young kids with computers from just jumping in and cheating. :)
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