Re: [pbmserv-dev] Cathedral and other resign.

[Scott Huddleston <scotth@ichips.intel.com>]

>It would be nice to know if a game (any game) was resign:
>1) Because of the dead-line.
>2) Because the player knew he was going to loose.
>3) Because a player made a false move in a game without undo.
>4) Because ???

In a similar spirit, I'd like to see whether or not swaps were
available or taken in the game record.

I think (1) is already discriminated from other losses, as Forfeit vs.
Resign.

Implementing (3) would require
a). game wide code to do the concept (in both logging and reading the
   game record), and
b). a per-game hook in those few games where it arises.

(4) is not only a whole new concept, it also doesn't guarantee the
info you want if it's voluntary (and I doubt forcing people to say
why they resign would go over big:-)

- Scott


>The reason I say this is that I maintain a DB of Zertz game and also
>Cathedral.
>I hope to be able to analyse that when I will be retired.
>
>But it help to know why a game was not finish.
>Sometime it is obvious. But sometime it is not.
>
>If it is not obvious, this mean it is interesting to analyse why one resign.
>If you don't find you look stupid, but in fact it was a time issue.
>
>Anybody think a easy way to include that in PBeM in a generic way,
>so that each game don't need to be modified.
>It could be as simple as resign and RESIGN.
>
>David GLAUDE
>
>
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