Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:30:05 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 11:45:57, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On August 25, 2002 at 07:16:08, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On August 25, 2002 at 04:44:26, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>>
>>>[Date "2002.08.22"]
>>>[Round "1"]
>>>[White "Rebel Century 4 A1200"]
>>>[Black "Gromit 3.11.9 A1200"]
>>>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>>>[TimeControl "40/7200:20/3600:20/3600"]
>>>
>>>{156MB, Fritz7.ctg, A1200
>>
>>
>>Why is Gromit allowed to play with the Fritz7.ctg book?
>
>You could even go further and ask, why they are allowed to use the CessBase GUI
>?
>That's because, there are other important features besides the book itself:
>first of all book-learning through the CB-GUI which is particularly essential
>for the SSDF kind of matches, another things is the EGTB access by the GUI. So
>in case a 5 men position appears on the board, the engine won't even be invoked;
>that's handled completely by the CB GUI.
>
>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
This is fixable, when everyone gets tired of pussyfooting around _the_
issue.
This issue is the single-author on multiple teams issue.
When everyone _finally_ figures out that this is not going to work, and
decides to go with the very logical "one person, one team" so that a single
book author is on a single team, _period_, then the problem goes away.
Until then, it is going to be just like that damned pink Energizer Bunny...
And keep coming back, and coming back, and coming back, and ...
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