Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:15:41 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 07:03:18, blass uri wrote: >On October 31, 1999 at 05:58:15, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>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. > >I do not agree. >They give the users less options. On the other hand, it's a way to avoid distorted results by autoplaying Fritz at 40:2 with 4MB hashtables, as it has happened with F4 in rated games. >I think that giving the users more options is better. >I think the users are intelligent enough to understand if the conditions are >suboptimal. > >I do not think that CD-rom in the drive is optimal condition because I saw >Nimzo99 losing some games against Mchess because of the stupid way of using this >CD. > >I also think that the CD-rom of Fritz is part of the Fritz program so they >should not let Junior or Nimzo to use it(The buyers of only Junior do not get >the Fritz CD). Recent CB programs don't require the CD in the drive when autoplaying. Enrique >Uri
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