Author: Peter W. Gillgasch
Date: 02:17:58 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 00:55:33, Harald Faber wrote: >On January 27, 2000 at 15:59:57, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>A big problem with Auto232 players is that they are programmed wrong. Which Auto232 players are you talking about ? >>I have a >>solution: >>Skeptical mode. >> >>In skeptical mode, the chess engine ignores any reset directives. It just keeps >>on pondering and changes nothing unless some actual move sequence *forces* a >>change in mode. In other words, in "skeptical" mode many of the winboard >>directives are simply ignored. In Auto232 this is what the master should do. Either terminate the connection with the slave because the damned thing doesn´t comply with the protocoll or ignore. Depends. What has Winboard to do with it ? >>Will it help? Actually, I think the programs that succeed _must_ already be >>doing this. > >Wouldn't it be generally better to make it possible playing via LAN? A LAN per se doesn´t make things better. Why should it improve anything ? If you have the source for the affected software __fix it yourself__ and stop complaining ;) Changing the transfer medium does not change the problem. If the slave sends packets with master commands, the master has to cope with it. The slave is broken, but the master is broken as well if he can´t handle it - he communicates with his enemy so the assumption that the slave is a damned uncooperative liar has to be built into your software. If you don´t do this, well, you die as you do in real life :) -- Peter
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