Author: Peter W. Gillgasch
Date: 13:04:32 09/23/98
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Dear Ossi, excuse me, but this whole discussion about "cheating / secret" autoplayers is silly unless I am missing something obvious. Exactly what prevents an interested party to have a trip to Sweden to hang either a serial analyzer into the serial port (hint: costs less than a chess program) of the Fritz machine while it plays games or even better, hook up a PeeCee with a terminal program instead of a PeeCee with another chess program and play manually via the serial line or even *much* better route the stuff through a 3rd PeeCee which logs the data to the harddisc (even a modest DOS biggot can write such a program in less than 15 lines of 'C' code) and let it run all night, then inspect the logs. The Swedes could do this themselves. Unless ChessBase has written replacements for the auto232 drivers of the other chess programs and the signals are scrambled and translated by that I see no problem to check this out. F5 certainly doesn't require some strange unkown driver to be installed on the *opponent* machine ?! So, has this been tried ? If not, why ? If yes, why I have I seen no posting of the "devilish, satanic" log files ? Since you all are intelligent persons I assume that the real reason why you are angry about the issue is the fact that you can't do automatic testing versus F5. But this is another issue. In that case, this whole wogwash *in the name of fairness* is pure marketing speak, easily identified by anyone who ever saw a PeeCee from the rear :) There are probably good reasons to be upset about the situation, but "devilish, satanic, cheating" autoplayers are certainly not among them. -- Peter
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