1 NOTE: This file dates back to 1996, and some of the information in it
2 is no longer accurate. However, it has been preserved because it
3 contains interesting historical information.
5 This program is an automated Tournament Direct for use with online
6 Chess servers mainly FICS. If it is used with anything other than
7 FICS at this time it will crash with out question. It is programmed
8 to respond to the parsing of FICS text only. Fred Baumgarten
9 originally wrote this code because there was a need and Chevier Joel
10 the creator of Tomato would not share the code. Fred gave me the code
11 in mid 1995 with the stipulation I not release it to anyone. I
12 have modified and (I hope) improved mame (now mamer).
13 Jean (current programmer of Tomato) and I are working very
14 closely on developing similar features and improving both tournament
15 directors. Our current project is to create a rating system that will
16 be used by both Mamer and Tomato.
18 Mamer stands for "manage me". Plus the -r- for the
19 differentiation between mame (Fred's) code and mamer (mlong's) code.
20 Fred's words follow: The intention to write this tournament director
21 program came out of the need to have such a program. Tomato - used at
22 FICS and written by darkside was not released to the public. Darkside
23 even did not want to accept a non disclosure agreement - so I decided
24 to write such a program myself. The program is written in C and will
25 support a bunch of new features soon. It is beta state since Version
26 0.5 but there _are_ bugs.
27 Fred Baumgarten <dc6iq@insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>. Have fun !!!
29 Mamer is maintained and coded here on FICS by mlong. PLEASE! FOR BUGS
30 PERTAINING TO MAMER TALK TO mlong.
32 [Last modified: September 12, 1998 -- toddmf]