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Subject: Re: Tiger 12 - Fritz 6: +4 =3 -1 so far, 40/120, turned to autoplayer

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 02:58:15 10/31/99

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On October 31, 1999 at 05:01:29, Harald Faber wrote:

>On October 29, 1999 at 13:41:05, blass uri wrote:
>
>>>>>Sometimes you should read my other posts not concerning Tiger. I already stated
>>>>>what I think of the CB-autoplayer.
>>>>
>>>>I remember that you said that this is a stupid autoplayer
>>>>and I think that all the autoplayers are stupid.
>>>
>>>
>>>They are not. There are CLEAN autoplayers. The DOS autoplayer may behave strange
>>>sometimes and the CB...well... but the general Windows-autoplayer, implemented
>>>in Nimzo, Shredder e.g., works fine.
>>
>>I have not the autoplayer but I did not hear something negative about the
>>chessbase autoplayer from Ed and other programmers not from chessbase.
>>
>>Do you know something that they do not know?
>>
>>Uri
>
>I don't know if the CB autoplayer cheats.

Then I don't think you should question it any more that you can question
anything else in CC.

> I know that I have seen some strange
>behaviour with the CB autoplayer.

You can find "strange" things happening sometimes with all autoplayers.

>And I know that no other autoplayer has such requirements: large enough
>hashtables for the chosen time control, large enough book and endgame CD-rom in
>the drive.

A bright move from CB. They made sure that they programs wouldn't autoplay under
sub-optimal conditions.

Enrique




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