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Subject: Re: Junior forfeits to Crafty!

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 09:34:53 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 12:32:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>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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