Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:18:37 01/25/00
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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
Can you set the formula so that it only accepts match requests by one of the
participants?
Albert Silver
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