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Subject: Re: Ed is right with auto232! Incredible

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:31:41 10/03/99

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On October 03, 1999 at 15:09:43, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>Posted by Harald Faber on October 03, 1999 at 05:22:14:
>>
>>I will look at it.
>>The Shredder game looks ok but needs further games to check.
>>At the moment my laptop is busy so I cannot give the information about the
>>config.sys and autoexec.bat at the moment.
>
>>For Ed solving the problem: I don't think he will do since Rebel CP is next
>>Rebel version and running on Windows so no need to find out the DOS problems.
>
>You are right. I am not in the mood to spend one minute longer of my time on
>auto232. If it is a pure DOS problem has to be seen. There is no single
>evidence pointing in that direction.
>
>>What astonishes me is that there don't seem to be many interested in this
>>topic.
>
>There is. But think of the consequences. The reliability of auto-playing is on
>stake here. Auto-playing is used to measure the strength of chess programs.
>90% of games published here and elsewhere comes from auto232. Imagine
>we drop auto232. We would return to the dark ages. Horrible view to look for.

I know. :-(

>>Right now I think there are 2 possibilities what causes the programs play
>>strange with auto232:
>>1) DOS program
>>2) Nimzo7.32 autoplayer which would let me suspect that the other CB products
>>produce the same behaviour, Fritz5, Junior5, Nimzo99 and Hiarcs7.32. But it
>>will take time to find this out.
>
>You will have a very hard (and long) time to proof that. Note that the case you
>described only occurred to me twice (as far as I can tell of course). I claim
>you aren't able to reproduce the Rebel case you had. It happens rarely and is
>IMO not reproducible.
>Ed

Maybe it is. Recently I read that it shall have to do with programs with dynamic
tablebase access like Nimzo has. So maybe another try will show me the same
behaviour. But I need time which I haven't got. :-(





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