Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:28:54 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 04:54:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On April 12, 2000 at 03:51:56, Ritter Rost wrote: > >>>And I'm just saying again, "What does it matter to you?" >> >>I am interested in an independent and strong SSDF which does not have to fear >>legal threats if they want to publish test results. This matters a lot to me. >> >>>Are you being bullied or prosecuted - No >>>Are the people being "bullied & prosecuted" publishing the results anyway - Yes. >> >>No they are not. See several posts of Bertil Eklunds on the matter. Ossi Weiner >>forbade them to publish the results of Genius, Zarkov and WChess. >> >> >>>My view from here is you are Anonomously trying to bring a private conflict into >>>a public forum. >> >>For computer chess the authenticity and independence of the SSDF as the only >>major testing institution is not a private matter. Nor is the behaviour of the >>major software publishers. >> >>> >>>The major achievement of this is a lot of discussion about the legality of your >>>original post & the possibility that CCC or the Moderators could be in legal >>>trouble because of Your post. >> >>CCC is a healthy, strong and commercially independent forum which can survive a >>little controversy as long as it remains free of _personal_ attacks, Tina. Some >>excitement here and there may even help to raise the number of visits/members. >> >>Furthermore there is no need to refer to my unthoughtful original post which has >>been thankfully deleted. I am simply quoting SSDF member Bertil Eklund in this >>thread. >> >>Bottom line: I would like the SSDF to be allowed to publish all test results. At >>the moment this is not the case. Bertil Eklund said that Ossi Weiner asked them >>to suppress the results of Genius, Zarkov and WChess, >> >>Ritter > >I agree with your entire post. > >What I don't understand is why Ossi doesn't want the results of these programs >published. They're all strong programs and I expect they would all end up within >a few points of the top program. It seems like that would be terrific >advertising for Ossi & co. > >-Tom If you read the email posted here, the answer is obvious. He believes that the auto232 software gives programs the opportunity to bias the results by various means (several have reported moves played under auto232 that are absolutely impossible to reproduce in testing.) I think that hiding is bad, and that rather than trying to hide, it would be better to expose auto232 for what it really is (a piece of trash) and try to get everyone to move on to something better (winboard protocol comes to mind since so many are now already using that, more in fact than are supporting auto232 by a wide margin). I think that threatening legal action that can possibly happen is a _really_ bad idea. As I said, I'll personally play _anybody_ that has shredder 4.0 and I'll publish the game immediately. _I_ didn't agree to _any_ restrictions of any kind, since I didn't buy shredder from them.
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