Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 06:39:16 04/14/00
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On April 14, 2000 at 06:01:30, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >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 Hi! You received the games in both pgn and cbv-format. Have you found anything strange in the games? Bertil
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