Author: David H. McClain
Date: 05:43:30 10/19/03
Gentlemen, I may not be alone with these thoughts but it is incomprehensible that Chessmater 9000 is continually not included on your list. It has been available for more than a year. You are welcome to have my legal copy of Chessmaster if that is the problem. With the SSDF list shown on a ChessBase owned web site one begins to wonder whether including Chessmaster has not been allowed by Chessbase because it gives very strong competition to Chessbase products. SSDF continues to ignore Chessmaster 9000 as does Chessbase while other truly independent testers test Chessmaster regularly and without preference. Is the SSDF list truly independent? The impressions being formed by many of us regarding this continual "oversight" are not favorable. Can anyone on SSDF give an honest and reasonable explanation or has that not been allowed either? The integrity of the SSDF list, in my opinion, continues to degrade as an independent chess program test organization regardless of the many fine people that volunteer. Perhaps the real name of the SSDF list should be SSDF list, an affiliate of Chessbase, Inc. You are insulting the intelligence of many that attend and contribute to this forum by continually omitting the latest Chessmaster versions from your list. DHM
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