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Subject: Re: Cutting through the chase re: SSDF and ChessBase

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 12:56:51 09/28/99

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On September 28, 1999 at 15:01:02, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>It was reported here by a member of the SSDF that most of the machines that the
>SSDF uses are owned by volunteers, but that four are owned by the SSDF itself.
>
>1) Are the four machines owned by the SSDF the four AMD K6-2-450 machines?

I and Tony have two each. These are paid entirely of us. I am not absolutely
sure if it is 2 P200 and 2 AMD450 (upgraded old machines).

>If the answer to 1) is yes, then
>
>2) Was the purchase of these machines sponsored by another organization?

Not a single dollar, mark krona or whatever. The machines are paid from a small
profit from the Ply magazine. We don´t have any money now so we have to pay some
programs personally. So far most AMD results comes from me in example all
Juniors games (450) I (we) choosed to play with the best placed programs at
first. Now when we have more machines we can play some of the other programs. I
guess that we had been more critizised if we started with number eight nine and
ten.

Regards Bertil SSDF

>If the answer to 2) is yes, then
>
>3) Was this other organization ChessBase or any organization that might be
>reasonably construed to be affiliated with ChessBase?

>If the answer to 3) (and by extension, 1 and 2) is yes, then SSDF has just
>earned a big credibility problem.
>
>On the other hand, if the answer to any of the above questions was "no", then I
>think this topic is safely droppable.
>
>Dave



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