Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 08:41:21 10/19/03
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On October 19, 2003 at 10:37:05, James T. Walker wrote: >On October 19, 2003 at 10:21:41, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: > >>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 >Maybe someone from SSDF will answer you. Meanwhile I will give my guess. >Chessmaster 9000 does not support auto232. The only way to play it would be >manually and that is unrealistic to ask of SSDF operators. They could play "The >King" engine in another GUI but without it's own book. This again is not >desireable in my opinion. The King engine uses a different type of end game >tablebases that only it/Chessmaster GUI can deal with. I would also like to see >Chessmaster on the SSDF list but the fault lies with the company that produces >it not SSDF and I don't believe Chessbase has anything to do with it. >Just my opinion/guess. >Jim All valid points. However, there is still one question to answer: it is known the SSDF folks in the past have asked Feng-Hsiung Hsu to test Deep Blue JR. Do you think this program has an auto232 interface? My best, Ed
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