Author: Mark Young
Date: 16:56:40 06/03/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 00:05:56, Komputer Korner wrote: >On June 02, 1998 at 18:45:42, Mark Young wrote: > >>Could someone explain why Fritz 5, or any other company, is required to >>make their autoplayer public? I keep reading about a gentelmen's >>agreement, and vague statements about unfairness. What agreement was >>made, and who made it? > >Ed Schroder has tried to get a gentleman's agreement to have all the >programmers provide their program's autoplay driver to the public. The >idea is that if one program has a secret autoplayer then others won't be >able to test against it while it will be able to test against theirs. >This is unfair. He probably won't succeed because having a bunch of >programmers agree on anything except the alpha beta algorithm is next >to impossible. >-- >Komputer Korner ------------------------- I would agree then that makes it unfair, or dumb for other companys to make their autoplayer public. If their is no agreement. So this does not make Fritz 5's rating unfair now? Just the other companys next generation programs, because they will not be able to autotest against the current number one program?
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