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Subject: Re: Suggestion for All Automated Programs on Chess Servers

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 18:45:16 02/25/00

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On February 25, 2000 at 19:00:15, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>With more and more programs (both commercial and amateur) becoming active on the
>servers, it would be nice if programmers could get their programs to do a couple
>of things:
>
>1. Kibitz program identity at start of each game.
>2. Set first line of finger notes to show program name and version (other
>details might be nice here too: hash table size, book size etc).
>
>This was first done by crafty I think, I have been doing it with LambChop for a
>while too.  It is a nice feature and avoids alot of mystery and needless
>questions.  Also, it helps prevent cheating!

Both Rebel-Tiger and CSTal 2.03 kibitz they are playing. Those are the only two
programs I know of that offer automatic Internet play. If someone has two
computers, or uses two windows, then there isn't much you can do about that.

Mel

>
>What do you think?
>
>cheers,
>Peter



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