Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:10:33 07/24/99
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On July 24, 1999 at 03:24:25, Mark Young wrote: >On July 24, 1999 at 02:49:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>It appears that a new magazine, ChessBits, will exist soon (if it does not >>already. There might even be an English version as well as a German one.) >> >>An article I just read at http://www.rebel.nl/cb/cb.htm suggests that something >>fishy is going on with the ChessBase autoplayer. The magazine is claimed to be >>independent, but this page is on Ed's website... I don't know what's up with >>that. Anyway, is there anyone out there without a commercial interest who can >>reproduce the "blunder behavior" described? >> >>Dave > >I don't understad how a autoplayer if true could force another program to play a >blunder. If possible why can't the programmer of the other chess program put >some kind of safegaurd in his program to prevent this from ever happening no >matter what autoplayer was use? > >If the chessbase autoplayer is clean, and as far as we know it is. Is it >possible for the problem to in the the other programs themselves. When playing >games by hand you don't play 30 or 40 games in a row. With a autoplayer there is >almost no limit, could some programs have some kind of bug in them that only >shows itself when the program is playing many games in a row without a restart. You're right, it could be the other program -- anything's possible. Given that their Winboard adapter doesn't do things the same way that Winboard does them, and that their autoplayer didn't act the way the original one did (see back posts where Rebel's learner wasn't getting activated), I suspect that there's some more implementation-specific weirdness going on. I wouldn't say that it's done intentionally. Of course, others wouldn't say that it isn't done intentionally either! :/ Dave
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