Author: Sean Empey
Date: 19:13:44 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! > >What do you think? > >cheers, >Peter I do this with Storm! I kib the program and version and set line 1 in the notes to the engine and version also. I think it's a good way of attempting to stop people from cheating whith an auto, plus I always like to know what program I am playing. I know Shredder 3 automated via Winboard tell's the opponent that they are playing Shredder.
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