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Subject: Re: Autoplayer232 and program cheating - http://www.rebel.nl/cb/cb.htm

Author: Chuck

Date: 20:02:58 07/23/99

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Here's the URL - http://www.rebel.nl/cb/cb.htm. I found the article very
interesting.

On July 23, 1999 at 22:26:00, James Robertson wrote:

>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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