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Subject: Re: The timed-out Crafty - Ban game

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 04:25:45 11/07/99

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On November 07, 1999 at 00:53:13, blass uri wrote:

>On November 06, 1999 at 21:00:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>As I said before, I'll bet that Crafty is the most 'contrite' program you will
>>find on ICC, when playing against human GM/IM players.
>
>The point is that crafty also plays against computers when part of them manual
>and crafty is not the most 'contrite' program that a manual operator will
>find.
>
>Manual operators are humans and the fact that part of them are bad guys does not
>justify always refusing to draw.
>
>It is also better for crafty not to do it because it will have more free time to
>play against humans(I assume that you are not interested in the rating that you
>can get by winning on time when there is nothing to do on the board in games
>with increasment against manual programs)

The only problem with this is that you can't tell whether a computer is manual
or automatic unless you already know, or you are watching.  If Crafty is running
and Bob isn't watching it, how will it know which computers are manual ones?



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