Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:09:02 02/23/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 08:59:23, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On February 23, 1998 at 07:13:22, Andreas Mader wrote: > >>Is Fritz the only program that played its games mainly with 64MB hash >>tables? And if yes, don't you think that this is an unfair advantage >>given to one single program? What will you do if the next version of >>Fritz' autoplayer will only work if Fritz is given a Pentium II 400? > >I have also heard, that the auto232 of Fritz5 does not work in the >commercial >version. So, the SSDF testers have got some special version of the >program. In principle, this would allow for some kinds of manipulation. >For instance, you know if auto232 is active then you have an opponent >out of a small group of commercial programs. I don't claim that this is >the case, but I am not completely happy with this development. I would >appreciate the SSDF testing a wide spectrum of programs instead of >focussing on the few commercial toppers. >IMO, this would lower the chance of manipulations. > >Uli > >> >>Andreas I suspect that this is merely an attempt by the Fritz guys to prevent massive book-cooking. IE you can cook against Fritz, but only by playing manual games. Rather than by buying a half-dozen machines and letting them play 24 hours a day automatically. It would be easy to catch cheating, just download a couple of the games fritz played for the SSDF folks and play those games on your own version of fritz 5 to see if it agrees.
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