Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:22:05 04/17/00
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On April 17, 2000 at 14:52:15, Will Singleton wrote: >On April 17, 2000 at 13:57:07, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>I propose that Winboard can be used for engine/engine tests. It's a lot better >>than a serial cable. Any of the commercial engines that support the Winboard >>protocol could also be tested in this way. >> >>I think that people will also have assurances of 'no dirty pool' since the >>Winboard source code is open source. > >I would like to see testing also by winboard, since the protocol is fairly easy >to implement and then Mac programs could play direct matches. > >I'm going to differ with your comment on open source, however. Wouldn't it be >possible for someone to monkey with the source to skew match results? How do >you ensure that winboard used for testing hasn't been modified? You have a point there. I hadn't thought of that! I was just thinking that some people might believe Auto232 code is slated to give particular engines a boost and penalize others. However, I suppose it would be possible to doctor the Winboard code also to do resets and other nasty things. However, the engine logs (if provided) could show what was going on there.
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