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

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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