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Subject: Re: Sever Clutter with Clones of GnuChess/Crafty

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:53:38 01/27/99

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On January 27, 1999 at 13:41:55, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 27, 1999 at 13:11:17, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>
>>This message poses the question of whether the (F)ICS
>>servers are being damaged by clutter of clone after clone
>>of GNU Chess, Crafty, any others...
>>
>>More and more people seem to have "!computer" in their formula
>>or are declining to play.
>>
>>What are your thoughts?
>If you don't want to play a computer, then noplay them.
>
>If there were a billion computer players connected and one hundred human
>players, I don't see how there could be a problem, because you still have the
>right to pick and choose.
>
>I think that cheating is a problem, and probably cannot be eliminated.
>
>I feel sorry for the cheaters, mostly.  What sort of low self-esteem must these
>people have to cause them to lie and cheat to gain the hollowest sort of
>victory?
>
>Personally, I like to play against computers.  But I have never actually used
>FICS or ICC to play a chess game.  I'd rather just play them on my PC.
>
>While the thought of 1000 gnuchess machines playing against 1000 gnuchess
>machines seems kind of silly to me, if that is what people want to do, why not
>let them do so?

But that's just the problem. They take away precious human players from the
other non-clone computer players!

Also, the proliferation of computer players due to cloning gives computers
a bad name to a greater extent than they already have because of the sheer
numbers of similar "me-too" clones.




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