Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 05:06:11 09/21/98
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On September 20, 1998 at 09:53:20, blass uri wrote: > >On September 20, 1998 at 05:10:26, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>>Ed - i do completely subscribe your position. >>>you try to fight for fair competition. >>>stand the pressure. >> >>Thanks for supporting my view. >> >>>don't let the others "convince" you with the means of their feet. >>>It is important that the ssdf recognize that they cannot do whatever they want, >>>especially when it comes to "special negotiations" and special conditions with >>>only ONE participant. >> >>I do not think this is the case. I think the SSDF handled in all fairness. They >>only took a wrong decision not realizing the disadvantages of that decision. >> >>>You always argued that there was a common sense, that all programmers >>>subscribed, to implement the auto232 driver into their programs, to support >>>this >>>driver. this common sense of all programmers was impolitely broken by matthias >>>decision not to support the autoplayer in public. >> >>I have read in CSS their motives, I believe them and understand better now. >>It's indeed not funny if your opening book is shot into pieces. > >I am not sure if I understand. >Do they say that the reason that they did a secret autoplayer is that they were >afraid of opening preperation in the next ssdf list?. > >I know that the powerbook of them is a bad book >and I think that this is the reason that they did better in the ssdf list when >they play many games against the same opponent because in this way they can >learn the good lines of the big book that they use. Chessbase say they have never spend precious computing time on outbooking the opponents and are not going to in the future. They think this is a complete waste of time, as it won't make the book any better in reality and therefore it doesn't add any value for the customers which is their main concern. They think Fritz has been highly underrated for a long time because the competition does outbooking excessively and they don't at all. That's why they came up with the secretive autoplayer, they say. A case of "self-justice" so to say - understandable, but ... - Guido -
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