Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:36:40 03/20/98
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On March 20, 1998 at 13:07:15, Komputer Korner wrote: >NOT YET. The present situation as Bruce Moreland pointed out is that by >autoplaying and hand tuning his book, a programmer can prepare for X >number of opponents very easily, and if he has the latest program that >gets added >to the SSDF, his program has a huge advantage. To stop this, programmers >should be allowed to deliver/ release an updated book at any time to the >SSDF. Of course this book would have to be released to the public as >well for a fee. It would mean that the programmers would be in the >opening book publishing business, but they are now because most of the >top ones already hire an opening book specialist. It would be annoying if not nightmarish to distribute a special opening book to the SSDF, I would guess. And by the time you make the new book, you've already gotten creamed by someone. bruce
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