Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 11:57:50 12/09/03
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On December 09, 2003 at 10:51:46, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On December 09, 2003 at 10:34:40, Steffen Jakob wrote: > >>Hi Uli! >> >>On December 09, 2003 at 10:27:19, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> >>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:16:30, José Carlos wrote: >>> >>>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:09:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:05:05, K. Burcham wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>GCP, are you saying that the program Jonny, and the operator of Jonny did not >>>>>>know about the repetition until informed by Mr. Z? >>>>>>are you saying that the program Jonny also could not detect the position had >>>>>>been played for the third time? >>>>> >>>>>Mr Zwanzer = Jonny programmer = Jonny operator >>>>> >>>>>Jonny did not know that a 3 fold repetition is a draw. >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>GCP >>>> >>>> The software playing under the name Jonny did know. If what the GUI says is >>>>ignored then don't let Jonny play under that GUI. Don't keep repeating that >>>>nonsense about the engine vs the GUI. One player, one playing unit, that's it. >>> >>>I think that combining a private engine with a commercial GUI on occasions like >>>this is very debatable. >>>It was a big case that one of the programs was suspected to use source code of >>>another one. Why should use of foreign code in binary form be acceptable ? >> >>Although I usually work with xbard under Linux I also used the Fritz GUI in >>Graz. The reason was that xboard does not support the time control which was >>used in Graz (remaining time 30 minutes). Of course one could do it with >>xboard/winboard by overruling the commands from the GUI (actually Thomas Mayer >>did it). But on the other hand I don´t think that using the Fritz GUI gave me an >>advantage (I didnt use book learning e.g. and disabled the tablebase usage of >>the GUI). If you say that it should forbidden to use foreign code in binary form >>like this, then why do you only mention commercial GUIs? Why would you allow >>e.g. winboard? > >I wouldn't allow it. >On tourneys, I like to use my own simple text GUI, supporting operator time, >clock adjustment, producing a loud noise to wake you up after moving, ... > >However, on ipcc in Paderborn for instance, the organizers like to publish the >games online in web. This is more comfortably done using the Fritz GUI, which >can be configured to update a pgn file after each move. But I guess that the >athmosphere on ipcc is far more relaxed than on wmcc ? > I can't speak for paderborn, but in Graz the atmosphere was very relaxed and enjoyable (unlike the impression reading the forum here would make). > > >Uli > >> >>Greetings, >>Steffen.
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