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Subject: Re: Is knowing the opponent allowed in the ssdf games?

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 02:28:40 03/19/99

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On March 19, 1999 at 04:37:26, blass uri wrote:

>On March 17, 1999 at 03:19:00, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 1999 at 01:01:50, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Do You play with latest Nimzo99 engine? I guess so...
>>
>>Yes, and I use the parameter where you can choose opponent.
>>(Junior, Fritz, Rebel or Other)
>
>Junior lost ELO against Comet32 because of a short draw after the opening
>I found that it could avoid the draw by using bigger value of contempt but Amir
>Ban replied that knowing the opponent is not allowed so Junior5 cannot use
>bigger value of contempt against weak opponents
>
>Uri

This is a rather new issue. But if a program have this feature I see no wrong in
using it.

Tony



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