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Subject: Re: ICC Chesstournament - Updates

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:51:25 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 14:26:35, Steve McRiley wrote:

>On January 24, 2000 at 09:43:28, Dan Homan wrote:
>
>>For a tourney like this, what is the ettiquite for programs whispering
>>or kibitzing eval information?   By default my program will spit out how
>>it thinks it is doing (score, depth, nps) after each move (I usually alias this
>>to a kibitz or a whisper depending on whether I am playing an automated computer
>>or a human).  I know that other programs have a similar facility (some also
>>display pv info).
>>
>>It might be interesting for some of the participants to see this information and
>>certainly for the observers to see this information.  On the other hand, some
>>participants (particularly ones who are operating manually) may find
>>this screen cluttering information to be rather annoying.  Maybe there could
>>be an "eval" channel, where participant programs could send eval information
>> - or would this be too confusing?
>>
>>Another question:  My program will be running under Xboard by Tim Mann.
>>Xboard automatically accepts game requests that fit your formula.  How
>>do I prevent someone from "matching" my program a few minutes before
>>the tournament game is supposed to start?  Do I have to set "open = 0" until
>>the moment before the game begins?
>
>There are (as has been posted)several ways to do this but I think the easiest
>way is to just set manualaccept to 1. This way you will have to manually accept
>any matchrequests.
>
>/McRiley


This is an ICC command, not an xboard command, correct?  Which means that
"zippy" will get a match request, and accept it automatically by sending ICC
the "accept player-name" command.  I thought manualaccept was to prevent seeks
from starting a game without the seeker being ready...



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