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Subject: CCTF- Computer Chess Testing Foundation

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 23:03:50 06/03/98


With the perhaps imminent demise of the SSDF,  See the below  piece of
news from Bert Seifriz at GambitSoft:

"Ed Schröder makes his own list now, Millennium GmbH, a chess firm
here, publish also their own lists. Without saying anything about
their evaluations, all the people who criticize the Swedish list
should know that the Swedes might give up soon. In a letter to us they
promised to carry on until the end of this year, but afterwards the
Swedish list might die which would be a pity! - 6/2/98"

I am announcing an organization called CCTF which would stand for
Computer
Chess Testing Foundation.
We could start off testing and rating the winboard engines and then
the
Fritz engines (Fritz, Hiarcs, Junior, and Doctor) and the commercial
programs and who knows what else in
the future? As for the commercial programs I propose to allow only
those programs to be tested that have publicly available autotesters.
I applaud Ed Schroder's efforts on this behalf, but I feel that an
independent organization is needed or else there will be suspicion in
the end about Ed's methods. I believe Ed is a truly honorable man but
the other programmers won't stand for an "Independent" testing
organization being controlled by  a single competitor (Ed himself).
There are at least 2 others doing extensive testing with a number of
programs and one of them  is the famous SHEP.  Perhaps he would
graciously accept to join CCTF and be on the board of directors of
CCTF. And of course Enrique Irazoqui just has to say when and he will
be on the board (and in all probability chairman if he wants the
post). If anybody can come up with a constitution and if anybody wants
to be statistician please respond to this post. For  commercial
programs  testers need 2 exact computers. The beauty of testing in
Winboard and the Fritz GUI  however  is that you only need 1 computer
with of course pondering turned off.    And of course testing is all
automatic so once you get setup there isn't much work. Might as well
have your computers run overnight when they have nothing to do. The idea
is to have MAC programs also tested and the rating link to this would be
Hiarcs 6  Mac version.

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