Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 03:40:33 04/17/00
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On April 16, 2000 at 16:25:06, Bertil Eklund wrote: >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 I am very sorry that this discussion was taken to another, unmoderated forum. I got attacked in those postings and I don't quite understand why they were not posted here. I am also very sorry that the authors of those postings apparently didn't get my point of view and I am afraid that there is not much I can do about it. Stefan
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