Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 13:34:44 05/04/98
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On May 04, 1998 at 15:37:39, Howard Exner wrote: >On May 04, 1998 at 11:22:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>4 - The fact that ChessBase can tune their engines and books against the >>opposition without allowing the other programmers to do the same, gives >>ChessBase an obvious advantage. > >>Point 4) is, I think, the troublemaker, the only real one. I see two >>ways to solve it: >>a - ChessBase releases the autoplayer Fritz 5. >>b - Other programmers follow the example and release auto232 versions >>only for the SSDF. > >How would point b work? The same way it works now. Enrique > If Fritz says only use my autoplayer and >Genius says only use my autoplayer they would never play each other. >I can't see how other programs can follow the Fritz requirement as >no testing could be done. It has to be a universal autoplayer that all >agree to. Why didn't Fritz use the standard autoplayer? Is the reasoning >that other programs will autotest and find weaknesses? So what, since >Fritz could then again improve its program in the next generation. In a >sense >it could thank the other programmers for finding and exploiting the >weaknesses >and in turn become even better.
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