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Subject: Re: Shredder, ChessBits and Marcus Kaestner

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:56:16 10/02/00

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On October 02, 2000 at 12:24:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>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



Marcus did NOT use his knowledge to help Tiger. The opening choice is Jeroen's
work.



    Christophe



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