Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 03:01:30 04/14/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 17:21:26, blass uri wrote: >On April 13, 2000 at 13:37:13, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On April 12, 2000 at 21:56:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>>I suspect that Millennium GmbH would have an extremely tough time winning in >>>court against the SSDF if they did publish results for Genuis 6.5, WChess, etc. >>>Nonetheless, it appears that they feel that bullying independent citizen groups >>>is a successful marketing strategy. I can only shake my head. >> >>look : ssdf published results that are not played out on the base >>of a fair competition. the results have been influenced by the autoplayer >>device. >> >>millennium company has nothing against a fair competition. >>if the ssdf e.g. would (as they have done over the years with the dedicated >>machines) >>test by hand, nobody would complain. >>but they use the chessbase autoplayer device. >>the results of this device differ from the device other companies use. >>therefore the results are somehow irrelevant. >>but the ssdf do nowhere print in their publications that their results >>have been "arranged" or "generated" with the >>chessbase autoplayer device which is not generally trusted by agreement >>of all programmer paricipating in the list. >>they do only publish numbers. stupid numbers. >>i see no other way for millennium company to forbid to publish those silly >>data, than threatening them. licence agreements in europe do count for swedish >>people to. you can believe me. it might be different in US, but many things >>are different in US. >> >>i would do exactly the same if it would be my product. >>if somebody would publish lies about my girl-friend or lies about my >>friends, he would get also similar kind of answer. >>printing lies is not a fair way of competition and not a fair way >>of an "independant organisation". > >Printing games and results of games is not printing lies. >If the autoplayer of chessbase help chessbase then it is important to prove it >but I saw no proof for it. >The fact that you get different results may be because you do not use the same >hardware and is not a proof that the autoplayer of chessbase helps chessbase. > >The ssdf guys tested shredder4 and sent all the games with logfiles to the >programmer and stefan found no problem with the results. >shredder4 is probably number 3 after Fritz and Junior. > >Stefan has no problem with printing the games and the results of shredder4 but >the ssdf do not want to give information about shredder if they have not the >right to print information about other programs of the millenium. > >Uri I didn't get any log file. Stefan
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