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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