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Subject: SSDF Rating List Less Chessmaster? Why?

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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