Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 05:04:06 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 06:11:08, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >Sorry but this just doesnt work. It is too easy to change a program so that it >shows different scores and main lines. Correct. Any test would have to be at the level of the source code. A faker could very easily write a "man in the middle" which sat between a program and its user interface - even if that were a DOS window - and "improved" the data passing to the user interface; that the Winboard/UCI protocols are based on plain text is a great help in doing so. Alastair
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