Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 12:07:56 04/30/98
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On April 29, 1998 at 05:47:52, Peter Herttrich wrote: >Hello and sorry for the hard subject. > >Here I repeat for the xth time my question: > >When do the the Chess-programmers discover the LAN-Cards? > >Every stupid shoot-em-up-game is able to use such >ethernetcards. They are cheap (abt $20). >Every OS has a IP-Stack, also Win3.11 (Trumpet-Shareware). >The lan is very easy to monitor. With a tool like tcpdump >you can monitor the whole traffic between the chessmachines. >Then there is no possiblity to manipulate, because the >traffic is tranparent. >So the discussions abt the auto232 will have an end. > >And think abt the possibilities: Playing with any >chessprogramm through the net, anyway, where there are. >Any chessprogramm has a connection to the ICSs. > >What did the community and chessprogrammers think >about this? I think your argument is wrong. Not the way messages and moves are communicated are the problems in auto232 play. The problem is: if there is a protocol, then you can cheat. It's like playing against someone always repeating the same line, you can prepare something against him. For example: suppose we use the genius trick (i'm not insulting richard lang here, but i call this the genius trick because it accidentely happened when autoplaying diep at 2 hours 40 moves against genius, and genius aborted a bad position because it got a fail low, and searched longer than the 40 minutes abort time): Suppose that your protocol like auto232 says: after x minutes we abort a game. Now suppose your evaluation shows fail low, you give program more time and more time and more time, then finally game gets aborted and a new game started. Is this cheating? I think so. So as soon as you suspect that you're trapped after your book line is over, under some conditions you can easily abort. Second trick: assume you have played some thousands of games at home with auto232. Now you have statistics about what lines your program scores well against certain other programs (opponent modelling). So now you only need to find out whether you are playing such an opponent. this can be done easily when you have your own driver (chessbase why did you develop own driver and spend masses of time on this so money on this when auto232 player is so easy to implement?). This greatly will improve scores against the programs: Genius, Mcpro, Rebel, Hiarcs, Kallisto, Wchess. This because these programs have their own driver. I'm not sure whether you can detect easily what program is at the noname-driver. Experts? >Cheerio >Peter
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