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Subject: Re: Seirawan quotes SSDF

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 04:24:06 05/16/00

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On May 16, 2000 at 04:41:28, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>In the interview published by KasparovChess site, Yasser Seirawan quotes SSDF as
>a good example of hjow poeple should beahve to build good ranking lists:
>
>"I’m very impressed, for example, by the efforts made by this Swedish Computer
>Chess Federation, which, despite enormous commercial pressures, from all of the
>chess computer entities, they do the ratings for the commercial programs and say
>“I’m sorry, we’re not going to give you any advantages over anybody else. We are
>completely independent, and these are the best chess computer programs in the
>world, believe it or not.” I just can’t imagine how gross it would be if FIDE
>said, “Why is the SCCF doing that? We should be doing it.” Just stop and think
>about that."
>
>I would like to underline "...despite enormous commercial pressures...", and say
>that I'm not sure that everybody would agree about the fact that thay "...are
>not going to give you any advantages...", still interesting point of view.
>
>regards
>Franz
Hi!

What "advantages"? Give some examples.

Bertil



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