Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:42:35 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) > >Uri And what would you do when more than one 'manual' program offers a draw multiple times per move, _every_ move, hoping to catch the score < drawscore and get a quick draw? Crafty plays as it does against computers, because in general, manual computer operators are pretty poor sports (of course, programs run by their authors are generally an exception, but 99% of the computers on ICC are _not_ run by their authors, and are only there to see how high the rating can be driven, for reasons I don't understand. I have no sympathy for that particular 'class' of player. Authors will tell you that when I am present, and I see them playing crafty, I intervene and have it offer/accept draws whenever appropriate, and offer adjourns when they ask me to on the occasions when they need to leave to go somewhere.
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