Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 09:32:02 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 12:26:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 12:00:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>Ban left the cct tourney, because Hyatt was censoring him. Actually, he seems, >>he left 3 minutes after Bob removed him his censor list. So junior will be >>forfeited and the round re-paired. Everybody is pissed at Ban. > > >Here is what happened: About 3 months ago, Amir directly accused me of writing >code in crafty that was only there to 'abuse' the opponents. IE playing on in >dead lost games, moving quickly to run the opponent out of time, etc... > >I absolutely do not do that, and I told him so. He kept the claim alive. I >told him that if he felt like that, then obviously he wouldn't want to play >a program that is that abusive (if you had seen his history on ICC, you would >have noticed that 90% of his games were against me, which is hard to understand >if my program was _so_ abusively written.) I then told him here that I was >going to +censor him on ICC, that he could play anybody else he wanted. > >At 10:45 this morning, I saw him on and told crafty to tell him "I am playing >a game with diepx, but I will adjourn it right before start time." I then >discovered that the "censor" was on (I had totally forgotten about it). At >10:45 (15 minutes before the round started) I disconnected crafty, then logged >in myself and removed the censor for ban. > >I had also censored him but had forgotten about that as well. Apparently >right around the time I was removing the censor, he logged on and told the >tournament channel that he wasn't playing until I apologized for the censor on >CCC. > >I'm _not_ apologizing, as _I_ didn't make the outrageous statement that I >had written crafty specifically to behave in an abusive way. I had planned >on lifting the censor for the tournament game, and then put it back on, as I >won't play him with a program he claims is "abusive" until he retracts that >nonsense. > >That is all that I know. I didn't see his tells in 164 as I was logged on as >Crafty removing the censor. I have no idea what he said, specifically... and >see no reason to storm off in a huff. He _knows_ why he was censored. And >even if I had not remembered by 11am, a simple request to the TD could have >fixed the problem... > >That's all there is. What happens next is anybody's guess. It certainly does >screw up a lot of stuff for a lot of people. Yep. I was trying to lure Ban back to ICC with a quick post to CCC "just in case" he might read it and conclude he was blowing it. Oh well. Ban has hurt his own reputation with this one.
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