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Subject: Re: I still do not fully like the SSDF

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 11:25:31 11/05/00

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On November 05, 2000 at 14:11:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 05, 2000 at 13:35:46, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>>On November 05, 2000 at 11:27:43, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On November 05, 2000 at 00:27:18, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 05, 2000 at 00:15:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 04, 2000 at 23:40:09, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 04, 2000 at 22:28:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On November 04, 2000 at 19:35:26, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>We all know why, Chessmaster, Rebel, Shredder and the like are not on the list,
>>>>>>>>and I can understand that. But without them the list means very little to me
>>>>>>>>these days.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It is clear that shredder4 is number 4 in the list.
>>>>>>>When you download the list in dos format you can see that there is no program
>>>>>>>that is number 4 so it is clear that it is shredder4.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>
>>>>>>hmmm, very clear to everyone except me, if shredder 4 is number 4, then why
>>>>>>ain't it listed. See right now I have no idea if you are telling the truth or
>>>>>>being sacastic in response to what I write. If it is the truth, then its the
>>>>>>first I have ever heard of that.
>>>>>
>>>>>You can see the results in
>>>>>http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-36794/ssdf/rlwww004.txt
>>>>>
>>>>>1)You can see that program number 4 is missing.
>>>>>
>>>>>2)After the list of the programs there is a list of the results.
>>>>>You can see that Fritz6 beated program 204 26-14 if you go down to look at the
>>>>>list of the results.
>>>>>There is no other program that Fritz6 beated 26-14
>>>>>
>>>>>3)If you download the public ssdf games you can also see that Fritz6 won
>>>>>Shredder4 26-14
>>>>>
>>>>>4)204 is not in the list but other programs like 205 are in the list(205 is
>>>>>number 15 in the list)
>>>>>
>>>>>I learned from this facts that 204 is shredder4.
>>>>>The ssdf tries to hide shredder4 but if you are smart enough you have no problem
>>>>>to find it.
>>>>>
>>>>>I cannot find the rating of shredder4(maybe I am not smart enough) but I have no
>>>>>problem to find that it is number 4.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>Ah I see, but I only ever look at the list published, never any of the fine
>>>>details. It is stupid that it is not listed, I should not have to go looking as
>>>>you explained to find proper details. They should just list the damn thing.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the info Uri
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Ossi Weiner, Millennium's director, threatened the SSDF to sue them if they
>>>published the results of Shredder 4.
>>>
>>>It is indeed stupid, but it's Weiner's fault, not the SSDF's.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>I have an Athlon 700 and a Duron 700.
>>Slightly better hardware than the SSDF.  My question is,, would Mr. Weiner sue
>>me if I played Shredder 4, or 5  And published the games here?  Or sent them to
>>SSDF.
>>
>>Because I am in the process of playing a large 40/40 on the two mentioned
>>machines.
>>
>>
>>Chris Taylor
>
>No
>
>There is no contract that forbid you to publish shredder4's games so there is
>nothing to worry about.
>
>The ssdf does not publish most of their games and they have a lot of results
>without games.
>If you publish all of your games you do better job than the ssdf because we can
>check for errors in your games when it is impossible to find errors in the ssdf
>games that are not public.
>
>There are errors in the public games(I found for example that Junior5 was slowed
>down by a significant factor in one match and the tester had to repeat the
>games)
>
>I am sure that there are errors in the not public games but nobody can find them
>for obvious reasons.
>
>Uri

I will publish all the games played.  I do not have the  time to go through all
the moves.  And knowing how the autoplayer can sometimes throw up some wierd
things.  And you are a better chess player than I am Uri.  After all Computers
are only human too.

Chris





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