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Subject: Re: Shredder, ChessBits and Marcus Kaestner

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:24:13 10/02/00

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On October 02, 2000 at 11:43:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 02, 2000 at 11:34:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2000 at 10:56:30, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>><snipped>
>>>As i have read in Stefan“s championship-report, marcus operated
>>>tiger in the game tiger versus shredder in round 2.
>>>
>>>also i read that the operator (marcus ?!) told stefan, that he had prepared
>>>this line against shredder4. Really only against shredder4 or also against
>>>shredder4.16 ?!
>>
>>
>>I do not know.
>>I understood from stefan's post that the prepeperation was good against
>>shredder4.16
>>I see that tiger lost the game so the preperation was not good against
>>shredder(london)
>>
>>Uri
>
>However, I have to agree with Thorsten.  If someone is _really_ a beta tester,
>and they use information from beta testing to help an opponent, doesn't that
>sound a bit unethical?

I agree that using information about beta version of program A to help program B
against A is unethical

Uri
>
>If it happened, of course.



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