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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