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Subject: Re: Chessbase sinks even deeper

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 03:45:24 09/10/01

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On September 10, 2001 at 04:28:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 10, 2001 at 04:23:48, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2001 at 14:23:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 2001 at 13:17:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>They won the most important competition time after time (the ssdf list) and
>>>>other programs could top the list only for a short time.
>>>
>>>The most important competition is the championship.
>>>
>>>The SSDF list is a closed highly controversial closed group
>>>where not all programs participate. IMHO it's meaningless.
>>
>>I agree.  It's a shame all that computing power going to make a list that I
>>think most people don't look at.  I cannot tell you when the last time I looked
>>at it was.
>
>I think that most of the people do not look at the championship results or do
>not consider them as important and the proof is that Fritz is more popular than
>Shredder.
>

That has to do with publicity and marketing, not with results (either in
championships or in the SSDF). At any rate Chessmaster is more popular than
Fritz.
José.

>I doubt if there are more people who look at championship results than people
>who look at the ssdf list.
>
>Uri



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