Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 00:58:08 06/18/98
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On June 18, 1998 at 02:01:46, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Vincent Diepeveen on June 17, 1998 at 20:25:09: > >>It's possible to prevent >>this learning too, because a program R would use this too, >>then the next version of a program F will simply give again >>the store game command, but will exit using control-c, or simply reboot, >>and wil start a new game by moving to the begin of a game and then >>use a reset of the clock. > >Sure this is all possible. It's my CLEAR impression that this is not >common practice. AUTO232 occasionally crashes for very unknown reasons. >Sometimes you even have to turn off and on the Pc as pushing the reset >button or CTRL_ALT_DEL is not enough. > >All in all AUTO232 does in good job and gives reliable results and >until now there I have not seen any cheats. > All in all it is quite clear to me why Chessbase took so long to produce their auto232 player, they had to figure out how to kick Rebel's butt! >>Yes you lose the control to what games get stored and what not, and what >>happened to the game right before the autoplayer gave disturbance. > >>Yes that says enough about the followed approach. they never should have >>used those awfull machines freely shipped by chessbase without checking >>things first. Should have demanded that programs can play under equal >>conditions. When you do a brain surgery to a program every game, >>then this is not fair. We all know about what happens in topsport >>when you have a weak spot somewhere. > >>BTW did they really ship 200MMX intel and didn't they ship 200MMX k6 >>to Sweden, is that checked, and was that f5 version already with their book >>installed at the HD? > >>Can i buy a CDrom from Sweden with that F5 version? > >These are all rumors coming from one person. He told me the same. When I >asked for evidence of these claims he couldn't provide any! > >- Ed - > > >>Vincent
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