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Subject: Re: autoplayer for junior 5

Author: Hannu Wegner

Date: 00:35:00 11/15/98

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Hi Amir,

Thank you for your answer! Sorry, I did not want to activate the discussion
about the "cheating autoplayer. I should have send you the information via
email. But you can see that I'm not the only one who discoverd this bug. My only
intention was to help. I was hoping to get correct working autoplayerfeature in
the next ChessBase-products (Nimzo 99 and Fritz 5.32) or a patch for Junior 5.

Perhaps ChessBase did test the autoplayer-feature more seriosly with there own
engines. When Junior 5 is playing against Crafty everything works fine. But in
that moment when I use a different program (Mimzo 98, Nimzo 3,3.5, Genius
1,2,3,4,5, Rebel 6,7,8,9, Fritz 3!?, Shredder 2, CSTal (dos), Gandalf 3, M-Chess
7,8) the bug is existent. (I did test it with all above writen programs.) I do
not know if this is just a problem of my configuration. I do use Junior 5 on my
P133-Notebook 40MB-Ram and the other programs on my P166, 48MB. Junior 5 on the
P166 I did not test it with all programs, but it seems to change nothing.

The best would be to find the problem. I think other testers could tell me if
they also had problems with the Juniorautoplayer. Then it would be confirmend
that it has nothing to do with my configuration.

Best greetings,
Hannu Wegner






On November 14, 1998 at 11:42:03, Amir Ban wrote:

>On November 13, 1998 at 11:09:46, Hannu Wegner wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>You can use the DGT-board and the Chess 232-board.
>>
>>The winauto232-driver is not working correctly. Allways when Junior 5 or the
>>other engines (Crafty or Exchess) lose a game the autoplayer stop playing. The
>>next thing is that when you want to send the savegame-command to the other
>>program Junior send fist the new-game-command and the the save-game-command. The
>>result is, that the other program is only able to save the beginning position. I
>>think it is time for a patch which correct this mistake.
>>
>
>I brought this complaint, and the one by Hans Christian Lykke, to the attention
>of ChessBase, and they are investigating.
>
>There are no known problems in the J5 autoplayer, and so far ChessBase are not
>able to reproduce the problem. They will install on other machines to try and
>get a repro.
>
>I strongly resent the sick interpretation that some people gave to this on this
>thread.
>
>Amir



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