Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 13:25:06 04/16/00
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On April 15, 2000 at 21:09:45, Dave Gomboc 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. > >As far as I can tell, the competition is fair. > >>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. > >Please list the names of chess program software developers who have programs on >the SSDF list but do not trust ChessBase's autoplayer in particular. > >>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". >> >>>Dave > >You've accused Chessbase's autoplayer of distorting results in the past -- even >as long as two years ago -- and while you didn't post on that topic for a while, >it looks like you've jumped on that bandwagon again. Why don't you reply to >this message, and flat-out accuse ChessBase of writing autoplayer software that >fraudulently gives programs that are distributed by them an advantage? I can >only hope that they might then sue you for defamation, because then you might >learn from that experience that you should be more responsible about what you >say, and that you should either have actual facts to back up such a serious >allegation of mispropriety or not make it in the first place. > >Dave Hi! Read the excellent letters from Djordje and Enrique (in english) in Computerschach-forum http://www.computerschach.de/forum/index.html Bertil
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