Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:20:02 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 12:09:30, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 11:45:57, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > > >The tablebases are free to use, so it is not a problem that everyone can use >them. As far as the other nice features of f.e. the CB GUI are concerned: They >don't affect the results of the program in tournaments. So there is also no >problem. Not fully agreed here. As already mentioned, book learning is supported by the CB-GUI, too. I think that this is at least as important as the book itself for matches involving high numbers of games between 2 opponents. > >But if a program may use any available commercial book (and others don't!) we >get a very strange situation. This gives some programs a huge advantage over >others, which is not a fair treat. And I am mostly speaking about all the other >programmers who DO spent a lot of time on their books and tuning. Why should >they have a big disadvantage when somebody else says 'hey, I am not going to >spent a second on the book, I just take something that is on the market'? Your arguments sound quite reasonable to me. I guess, to allow (or even suggest) for the use of the F7-book was an unfortunate decision by SSDF. (Already, the book name itself is telling that it belongs to Fritz.) Uli > >Therefore the rules for the WCCC were changed by the ICGA and IMO rightly so. > >Best regards, Jeroen > > > >>On the other hand, the CB commercial engines have been using these features for >>a long time without anyone complaining as far as I know. Why should gromit be a >>so terribly different case here ? >> >>Nevertheless, I can understand that this is difficult to accept for the book >>making people. >>Perhaps they should be asked by any tournament director whether they agree to >>the use of their book by ANY engine. >> >>Regards, >>Uli >>> >>>Jeroen
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