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

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 02:08:53 03/20/99

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On March 19, 1999 at 05:42:00, Harald Faber wrote:

>On March 19, 1999 at 05:28:40, Tony Hedlund 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
>
>Fine, so the next generation/version of programs will have
>Anti-Fritz
>Anti-Hiarcs
>Anti-King
>Anti-Rebel
>Anti-Junior
>Anti-Nimzo
>Anti-Shredder
>Anti-Genius
>Anti-MChessPro
>settings with according opening books I suppose.
>
>This can't be the future, neither of chess nor computerchess.
>If SSDF will allow such a handling you can close your list. This is absolutely
>nonsense.

It's up to the programmers isn't it?

Tony



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