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Subject: Re: Unfair play by chessbase and tiger at auto232 player

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 14:50:30 03/26/01

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On March 26, 2001 at 17:31:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>This is very unfair behaviour.

>I read the issue as "hey, the interface is _not_ telling my program that
>the game has ended so I am not learning anything (ie book learning or
>whatever)".

>This shows a terrible weakness in the protocol... where one side has to be
>the "master" and the other has to be the "slave".  A plus for the winboard
>protocol, in fact...  which doesn't make that kind of design decision.

>I would basically agree with Vincent that if a end-of-game sentinel is going
>to be sent, it should be sent as a default, and should have to be turned off
>to eliminate it, rather than having to turn it on to enable it.  I can see
>room for _great_ mischief in autoplayer games, simply by choosing defaults
>that favor one engine over another.

right.
and the problem is that this all influences the results.
especially when doing long matches.

you can imagine what i want to say with this.




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