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Subject: Re: Attn:SSDF Will you include CM8000 in the next tests!!!

Author: Paul Doire

Date: 21:00:43 12/28/00

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On December 28, 2000 at 21:30:56, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On December 28, 2000 at 20:56:54, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>You are awaiting a patch for the Tigers,when that comes will you include
>>CM8000 also in your testing? You included CM6000 in the past,and CM8000 is
>>certainly worthy of testing and including in your list.
>>Your list will then have all contenders Fritz,Tigers,Century3,Shredder and the
>>chess public will have a complete list, not a fragmented list of some programs.
>>
>>This would be helpful in buying decisions,when a list is not all inclusive
>>and we must research ourselves based on posts to boards like this, it can be
>>difficult to navigate through all the facts vs nonsense.
>>
>>I respect your list and would only request that it be ALL inclusive of the
>>top programs.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Paul
>To test CM8000 or any version of CM is a very ardous task without AUTO232 or
>some kind of network connection.  I wish that the team of CM would include some
>type of network connection or AUTO232, I understand that auto232 is not perfect,
>but what else is there?  I don't blame SSDF if they refuse to test CM, I think
>they should boycott testing any chess engine which forces the tester to do the
>test manually.  It is a very painful job because some of us have jobs and other
>things to do besides sitting in front of 2 computers and manually entering the
>moves.  I boycott buying any version of CM until the day some type of auto232 or
>network version is implemented.
>Regards,
>Laurence

Your point is well taken, and a good one. Write a post about gathering support
for autoplayer as a standard!!! This of course would encourage the programmer of
auto player to improve his product also,ANOTHER BENEFIT!!!
If we organize we can accomplish a great deal, squabbling accomplishes nothing.
Regards,
Paul



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