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Subject: A suggestion for the ssdf.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:05:08 08/28/00


1)I suggest you stop using old programs like Fritz3 or Junior5 as players in the
ssdf list.

The reason is very simple

It is possible to get 100% result against program like Junior5 only by opening
preperation(It takes a long time but I believe that it is possible by using the
autoplayer to play thousands of games and save the winning games as part of the
opening book)

Nobody did it in the past but I think that it is better to prevent problems
before they happen and not after they happen.

2)I think that it will be better if the list will include only programs like
Shredder,Junior,Fritz,Crafty without a version number when you always use the
latest public version.

This idea can encourage programmers to sell their latest version or to release a
free upgrade every time they think they have a better version(this is not the
situation now and there are many programs when the latest version is not public
inspite of the fact that the programmers know that it is better).

The version number will be included only in the pgn file of the games and for
every program there will be information about the number of games that every
version played(the result of the latest version will be more important because
the rating system say that the latest results are the most important results).

Uri



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