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Subject: Re: Chesspartner(C), Chess Tiger and closed positions

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:37:51 12/05/99

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On December 05, 1999 at 15:48:22, Christophe Theron wrote:

>If you are allowed to know which kind of opponent you are playing, then Tiger
>should be allowed too. In this case, we would turn the "anti-human" option ON
>when the opponent is a human.
>
>But unfortunately the program runs completely automatically on FICS, with
>defaults settings which are not appropriate for a chess server.
>
>We are not playing there to get a ranking, but just to check that the program
>can run for days without problems.
>
>We could probably get a high ranking if we tried too. In this case we would use
>a 450MHz computer (at least) and manually set up the program depending on the
>opponent.

Or you can simply look for the string: "... is a computer." (which the ICS will
show when you start a game with a computer) or whatever the exact message is
that is sent, and then turn anti-human off.  Otherwise, it is on.



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