Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 05:21:25 04/08/00
Dear Mr. Karlsson,
we have noticed a message from Mr. Bertil Eklund in which he is announcing
that SHREDDER 4 is currently being tested for the SSDF rating list.
We are very surprised about this information. We have made very clear in the
past that we strongly disagree with such tests being published in the SSDF
rating list or elsewhere. The reason for this objection is the fact that our
products are facing
*unfair and unbalanced competition*
and
*strong disadvantages*
compared to certain competitors.
We have strong evidence from the side of well-known computer chess experts
that the Chessbase autoplayer (being used with the programs Fritz 5.32, Fritz
6, Hiarcs 7.32, Nimzo 7.32 and Junior 5/6) is showing very strange and
irregular behaviour. It frequently happens that the results of games are
manipulated in favour of the mentioned programs. We have noticed this very
serious problem already some time ago and decided to prepare a kind of
"anti-cheating firewall system" to protect our programs against any
manipulations from third parties. As long as this protection is not ready we
believe that your test results are partially manipulated and meaningless.
We want to warn you once again to publish such irregular tests, because this
is a violation of the legal rights of the programmers as well as our company.
Furthermore it's a hostile assault against the justified interests of the
involved parties.
If you don't respect this warning we may consider to take legal steps against
the SSDF and the involved private persons (including Mr. Karlsson and Mr.
Eklund) at a German court of our choice. A possible court sentence would be
easily enforcable in any country of the European community (including Sweden).
Please kindly reconfirm as soon as possible that you are going to respect the
rights of the copyright holders and wait until a protected version will be
available for your testing.
Best regards
Ossi Weiner
C.C.: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
C.C.: Klaka Rechtsanwaelte, Dr. Wolfgang Straub (Attorney at Law)
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