Author: blass uri
Date: 06:01:42 04/08/00
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On April 08, 2000 at 08:21:25, Ritter Rost wrote: >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. If you are right then I think that it is very important to prove it. I know that the autoplayer has problems and there are some cases of errors but I want a proof that there are more errors with shredder. Enrique played many public games between shredder and the chessbase programs with the autoplayer. please prove that there are errors that shredder cannot reproduce and that there are significantly less errors that Junior,Fritz,Nimzo,Hiarcs cannot reproduce. > >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. The ssdf can send their results with shredder and other programs to somebody else and (s)he who did not buy the programs can post the results without telling who told him(her) the results. In this case you cannot prove that the ssdf is responsible for the results because it can be somebody else with similiar hardware. You can do nothing against it so I think that it is absurd to try to take legal steps against the SSDF. I think that people should avoid buying your program if you take legal steps against the ssdf. Uri
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