Author: Tina Long
Date: 20:34:30 04/08/00
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Maybe your heading should state what you write about. >On April 08, 2000 at 08:21:25, Ritter Rost wrote: Is this post from Ritter Rost or from Ossi Weiner? >Dear Mr. Karlsson, This is CCC. Perhaps your post should have commenced: The following is a copy of a letter (telegram/EMail) that has been sent to Mr. Karlsson of the SSDF. > >we Who is "we" (Ritter Rost, Ossi Weiner, Millenium Corp)? There follows a lot of ranting & threats. People compare chess engines and the publish their results on the Internet. There is nothing you can do about this. Your licence agreement says nothing about this, and even that could not prevent such competitions & publication of results. This forum is made up of about 80% customers of Chess Software. Do you think a diatribe such as you have posted here will attract those customers to buy your products? I find your post offensive. Tina Long >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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