Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 00:05:42 05/05/98
>Posted by Dirk Frickenschmidt on May 04, 1998 at 18:37:52:
>In Reply to: Re: SSDF rating list soon history? posted by Enrique Irazoqui
>on May 04, 1998 at 11:22:28:
>On May 04, 1998 at 11:22:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>Thanks Enrique, this is plain facts without too much emotions!
>I completely agree with you.
>Just because I doubt anything will change without new ideas, I want to
>add one.
>The idea just came to my mind, and I have not yet have long thoughts
>about it, so look at it 'cum grano salis':
>How about
>a) all programmers requiring standard hardware for their programs as you
>proposed below (now perhaps still 200MMX with 64Mb, in future perhaps
>PII-300 or something; whatever: common for all)
>b) all programmers providing an autoplayer which will have a kind of
>time stamp in it for normal users, thus only allowing autoplay after
>let's say a two months period after installing.
>Only exeption: SSDF-version.
>Thus the SSDF testers could have their autoplay testgames for a certain
>period in which *no* company could use the autoplayer for outbooking
>tests.
>After finally having the common version work plus testing time (so after
>about half a year) outbooking procedures would not be of much use any
>longer, because soon after (about once a year) a new version of the
>program would appear, with new (at first not common) autoplayer.
>This might save enough time to avoid extreme forms of outbooking and
>still aloow us coomon folks to autoplay after two months: having fun and
>proving if the rating was ok all in all.
>This is just *one* *possible* example of new ideas. So nobody should be
>angry telling me why *this* one might not work or not be useful, better
>just make more proposals leading away from the present situation which
>is a dead end...
>Kind regards from Dirk
I disagree, an unworkable situation I fear.
Here is my proposal....
I can very well live with all the book tuning that is done. It's
not so bad in the moment since opening books become wider and wider.
Furthermore this book tuning against each other improves the quality of
opening books so it serves a certain positive goal too, better books.
Last, it would be a continuation of the fashion that is going on for
more than 10 years, SSDF competitors competing on opening books too.
Bottom line, nothing new under the sun.
But if we compete it should be on a equal basis. If the autoplayers of
Genius, Hiarcs, Rebel, Mchess, Shredder, Nimzo etc. are in the kitchen
of Hamburg the Fritz autoplayer should be in the kitchen of Genius,
Hiarcs, Rebel, Mchess, Shredder too.
This is a public request to all my colleagues not to remove auto232
from their programs in their next releases and to include auto232 in
their final version.
This is also a public request to SSDF to coordinate this proposal
between all the programmers or companies involved at least if you
guys find this proposal worthy enough to give it a try.
Bottom line (as I see it), if ALL release auto232 in their next
version the problem would be solved no?
- Ed Schroder -
CC: Thoralf Karlsson
Ossi Weiner
Matthias Wüllenweber
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