Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 13:15:59 09/27/98
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On September 21, 1998 at 08:06:11, Guido Schimmels wrote: > >On September 20, 1998 at 09:53:20, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On September 20, 1998 at 05:10:26, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>>Ed - i do completely subscribe your position. >>>>you try to fight for fair competition. >>>>stand the pressure. >>> >>>Thanks for supporting my view. >>> >>>>don't let the others "convince" you with the means of their feet. >>>>It is important that the ssdf recognize that they cannot do whatever they want, >>>>especially when it comes to "special negotiations" and special conditions with >>>>only ONE participant. >>> >>>I do not think this is the case. I think the SSDF handled in all fairness. They >>>only took a wrong decision not realizing the disadvantages of that decision. >>> >>>>You always argued that there was a common sense, that all programmers >>>>subscribed, to implement the auto232 driver into their programs, to support >>>>this >>>>driver. this common sense of all programmers was impolitely broken by matthias >>>>decision not to support the autoplayer in public. >>> >>>I have read in CSS their motives, I believe them and understand better now. >>>It's indeed not funny if your opening book is shot into pieces. >> >>I am not sure if I understand. >>Do they say that the reason that they did a secret autoplayer is that they were >>afraid of opening preperation in the next ssdf list?. >> >>I know that the powerbook of them is a bad book >>and I think that this is the reason that they did better in the ssdf list when >>they play many games against the same opponent because in this way they can >>learn the good lines of the big book that they use. > >Chessbase say they have never spend precious computing time on outbooking >the opponents and are not going to in the future. They think this is a complete >waste of time, as it won't make the book any better in reality and therefore it >doesn't add any value for the customers which is their main concern. They >think Fritz has been highly underrated for a long time because the competition >does outbooking excessively and they don't at all. That's why they came up >with the secretive autoplayer, they say. >A case of "self-justice" so to say - understandable, but ... > >- Guido - But the autoplayer doesn't decide what opening to play and as was reported here, it cannot tell WHO/WHAT the opponent is... So what is the point anyway? It started a storm in a glass of water (translation from a French expression)... Serge Desmarais
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