Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 07:21:41 10/19/03
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On October 19, 2003 at 08:43:30, David H. McClain wrote: >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 \ I think You hit on the quent essential Issue. This un-resovled Problem has been gone over,complained about, and agrued about time and time again. It has been put to rest,and keeps resurfacing over and over again. Chessmaster is a Chess Program,the positives and negatives concerning It really aren't imporant. Is an absorption By Chessbase the end result here? Something to think about.>>>>Mike
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