Author: pete
Date: 12:33:31 04/17/00
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On April 17, 2000 at 15:22:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Sorry to ask something here that might well be a FAQ or something very controversial but this really only is an innocent question ! I understand the concern about possible monkeying with the winboard source but how about auto232 ? I learnt from some Readme files of freeware programs that read like : "Thanks to Eugene Nalimov for tablebases and to Stefan Mayer-Kahlen for the auto232-code " I also understand that Chessbase did an own implementation of auto232 which was controversial to some ?! But , what I can't understand : the programmer ( who has posted himself that he used auto232 to prepare for the world championship ) points out some problems with "every version of the autoplayer he has seen ( not literary quoted ) ." Why is this controversial ? Shouldn't he know ?? Please : take this as what it is : this is a _question_ ; I never was involved in those discussions so don't know about those controversial things too much ; simply curious. pete
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