Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:29:53 09/23/98
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On September 23, 1998 at 16:04:32, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote: >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. I believe this is all nonsense, based on Ed's comments. He wrote a special version of Rebel to capture all the auto232 traffic and found *nothing* wrong. This is not a secret, it has been publicized for a long time now, yet it still keeps showing up (the secret cheating autoplayer). It is a crock. Secret yes. But that is all. The rest of the topic is simply a crock. I don't even understand why it keeps coming up. Unless it has something to do with Fritz remaining on top? > >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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