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. -- -- Komputer Korner The inkompetent komputer To send email take the 1 out of my address. My email address is korner1@netcom.ca but take the 1 out before sending the email.
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