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Subject: Re: NO general bug that Junior 5 opp. don´t save games!!!

Author: Hannu Wegner

Date: 09:43:49 11/17/98

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Hi Christophe,

It is nice to hear that Chess Tiger 11.7 support the autoplayer 232 now. Does
your program also support the Chess 232-pc-board? Or do plan to support
pc-board? I do not know when you want to release your program. I would like to
buy one copy if it is avalable. If you don't want to publish your program in the
next time, it would be a pleasure for me to help testing the pc-board-support
(if you like).

Best greetings,
Hannu Wegner



On November 16, 1998 at 22:02:29, Christophe Theron wrote:

>Thorsten has experienced the problem when playing Tiger against Junior, and
>reported to me. Maybe it is not the same autoplayer, but this made me realize
>that it was possible.
>
>I did not know, or did not believe, that the opponent could change the
>autoplayer behaviour to the point that you could not even save your game!
>
>I am using the standard "NONAME" autoplayer. That means that on the computer
>running Tiger there is a small piece of software, written several years ago by
>C. Donninger, that takes care of communications with the opponent and sending
>keystrokes to Tiger.
>
>I thought that saving the game was done automatically by this piece of software
>when the game ends. The game ends with a timeout (no more move are played for a
>given amount of time), so the opponent has no control to avoid this.
>
>What I did not know is that the opponent sends the command to save the game to
>my own program. And that a bug in the opponent could prevent my own program to
>save the game, and to learn if my learning algorithm is done when I save the
>game!
>
>So an autoplayer is really a critical piece of software, and not releasing it
>publicly is a problem to me.
>



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