Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 15:53:37 05/04/98
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On May 04, 1998 at 17:50:34, Howard Exner wrote: >On May 04, 1998 at 16:34:44, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>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. > >My understanding of the way it works now is that just one program is >using its exclusive autotester. Your point is that other programs do >this so my question remains - how will it work if all say, "use only >my autotester". I didn't say that. Imagine Rebel disables auto232 for the public, so competitors won't get it, and enables it only for the SSDF... Bad, I know. That's why it is much better if the autoplayer Fritz 5 is released commercially. As things are now, it seems some new programs won't be capable of autoplaying at all. Enrique > For example if Bruce sends Ferret and says you must only >test Ferret with the new Ferret-Auto X and I send them my program and >say >you must only use Howard-Auto Y then the two programs will never play >given >those specifications. Forgive me if I am missing something obvious. >> >>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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