Author: KarinsDad
Date: 22:13:01 03/19/99
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On March 20, 1999 at 00:19:33, blass uri wrote: > >On March 19, 1999 at 20:45:53, KarinsDad wrote: > > >>This would seem to have been a major disadvantage to Nimzo in the tournaments >>before the SSDF allowed programs to know who their opponents were (if there ever >>was such a period of time). Although it is an advantage now, again, so what? The >>programmers of Junior, Fritz, Rebel and others could have put such a feature in >>if they deemed it necessary. > >Maybe part of them would do it if they knew that it is legal in the ssdf. > >The problem is that the rules of the ssdf were not clear about it and the >assumption of part of the programmers was that it is illegal. > >This was at least the assumption of Amir Ban. > >Uri Uri, Not knowing the full background on this, I can only be confused. Does the SSDF really dictate which functionality can and cannot be placed into a program? I read their FAQ file and this does not appear to be the case, other then limiting the programs to "tournament" opening books and placing the program on it's "ultimate" settings. Now if Junior has a contempt feature that can be set higher and the programmers of Junior want that contempt to change settings based on who it is playing or the ELO of it's opponent, then that would be fine as long as the program does it dynamically. Could you please point me to a web page where the rules of the SSDF could be located? Also, if you have some more information on which specific rule was misinterpreted, I would like to read about it. Thanks, KarinsDad :)
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