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Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface

Posted By: neilkaz
Date: Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:08 p.m.

In Response To: Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms (Barry Silliman)

Barry wrote: "I don't like it. I think it detracts from the aesthetics of the game for both player and spectator."

Neil replies... a lot of the fun and interest for many players who attend BG tourneys is watching other matches. This is much more difficult when the match is being played on a LT screen rather than a normal BG board. Therefore here is somewhere that I disagree with many of the young new lions in our game. I know it is nice to play on a bot and have the match instantly recorded, but guys, you are W/C players or 1 tiny step behind that level. So many lessor players, beginners and intermediates are happy to watch your match and see what they can learn (yeah yeah..tell them to go study with Snowie or GNU..but they and others still want to watch).

So with that in mind and I may be quoted. I'd never allow any match in any event I'd ever run to be played on a lap top (unless it was agreed on by both players and a finals or semis and them put up on a screen for all to watch)

Messages In This Thread

• Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
  Bill Riles -- Sunday, 15 February 2009, at 11:13 p.m.
  • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
    Rich Munitz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 12:00 a.m.
  • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
    David Rockwell -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 1:47 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      Bob Koca -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:38 a.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Bill Riles -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:43 a.m.
        • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:04 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      Stick -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:12 a.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 6:15 p.m.
  • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
    Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 5:16 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      garyo -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 5:50 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      Barry Silliman -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 12:39 p.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:56 p.m.
        • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
          Stick -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:20 p.m.
      • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
        neilkaz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:08 p.m.
        • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
          Bill Riles -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:11 p.m.
        • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
          Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:30 p.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      mamabear -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 9:36 p.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 9:51 p.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        garyo -- Tuesday, 17 February 2009, at 6:06 a.m.
        • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
          Barry Silliman -- Tuesday, 17 February 2009, at 1:01 p.m.
          • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
            garyo -- Sunday, 22 February 2009, at 3:41 p.m.