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Subject: Re: Autoplayer232 and program cheating

Author: James Robertson

Date: 19:26:00 07/23/99

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On July 23, 1999 at 21:10:54, Chuck wrote:

>On the Rebel web site there is an article attributed to a new magazine named
>Chessbits concerning the Auto232 player and various programs taking advantage of
>it to force their opponents to lose. There are very specific examples of this
>given for Fritz, Nimzo, etc. (Chessbase).
>
>I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced "strange anomalies" using Auto232.
>I believe the programmer who developed it is the same person who authored Nimzo
>(Chrilly Donninger), in which case he does have a connection to Chessbase.
>However, I won't suggest any "monkey play", especially since I haven't checked
>it out myself yet. But this is what I'm doing now. I have two identical AMD K6-2
>350 computers and am intending to order an Auto232 soon (I believe they are only
>available from GambitSoft - is that true Steve?). So I was wondering if anyone
>has noticed any oddities while using it such as what Chessbits suggests. The
>examples are very serious in my opinion.
>
>I had heard that the software source was publicly available in which case we
>could see for ourselves, but I don't know where from.
>
>Chuck

What is the URL of the article?

James



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