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Subject: Re: Autoplay driver not public. Unfair why?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 02:12:20 06/04/98

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On June 03, 1998 at 19:56:40, Mark Young wrote:

>>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?

No. There are other reasons.

>Just the other companys next
>generation programs, because they will not be able to autotest against
>the current number one program?

They will go back and remove the autoplayer as well so that you with the
secret autoplayer have no advantage.
Of course this is a step back to stone age to play manually.




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