Author: blass uri
Date: 07:35:46 06/04/98
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On June 04, 1998 at 09:59:21, Guido Schimmels wrote:
>
>On June 04, 1998 at 07:49:40, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 04, 1998 at 05:56:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On June 04, 1998 at 05:33:00, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>humans can play between chess programs by hand and mouse
>>>>
>>>>I understand that it is hard to do a program that does the same
>>>>thing the hand does.
>>>>
>>>>what is the main problem about it
>>>>to do a program that moves the mouse or
>>>>to do a program that reads the screen and understands the move
>>>>that was done.
>>>
>>>What are you trying to say ????
>>
>>what is not clear?
>>my idea is that if there was a small robot that does the same action
>>humans can do then there was no problem with testing fritz5.
>>
>>I know nothing about doing robots so I ask if someone knows
>
>You don't need a robot or any kind of hardware device for that !
>In fact Donninger's original autoplayer - plenty of years ago -
>worked with no kind of interface provided by the programs it could
>handle.
>Donninger published an article describing how he has done it.
>Reading that stuff made my neck-hairs stand up, I can tell you -
>what a hacking adventure ! He had to figure out a bunch of
>"dirty tricks" for every single program, totally different code each - a
>mess !
>You'll find nobody who will do this for Fritz5 now, Donninger
>as the last man, believe me.
>Chessbase decided to be spoilers, sadly :-{
>
>- Guido
you say "He had to figure out a bunch of "dirty tricks" for every single
program"
by doing a small robot we solve the problem for every program
unless the program looks if there is a robot near it
and if there is it refuses to play.
Uri
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