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

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 10:45:25 01/28/99

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On January 27, 1999 at 20:25:14, James B. Shearer wrote:

>On January 27, 1999 at 16:53:38, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>                    <snip>
>>
>>But that's just the problem. They take away precious human players from the
>>other non-clone computer players!
>
>      Well as a "precious human player" I think it is for me to decide which
>computer programs if any I wish to play on the servers and I do not appreciate
>attempts to restrict my freedom of choice.
>      How bad a "problem" is this anyway?  Some of the under 2600 club programs
>are playing hundreds of games a week.  How many games can you examine a week?
>                               James B. Shearer
>PS:  What is your formula?

True, hundreds of games are played. But of those, only a small percentage
are losses :-)

Those are fairly easily analyzed.

I need the volume of games in order to get non-trivial numbers of losses
to see patterns necessitating repair.



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