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Subject: Re: ICC Chesstournament - Updates

Author: Steve McRiley

Date: 12:57:37 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 15:51:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Yes, its an ICC command. You can be right (and probably are ;) ) about how zippy
will react on this so maybe it is better just to set open 0 before the
tournament.

/McRiley



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