Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 02:57:40 01/16/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 05:47:44, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 05:12:12, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On January 16, 2001 at 01:57:59, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >> >>>On January 16, 2001 at 00:32:42, Harald Faber wrote: >>> >>>>You can say whatever you want, but this result (and the other auto232 Rebel >>>>Century results) is absolutely nonsense and out of value. >>> >>> >>>You can say whatever you want, but this result (and the other auto232 Rebel >>>>Century results) is absolutely necessery and of great value to make the SSDF-list! >> >>No great value at all. It will only hurt the creditability of your list. >> >>In previous years I already informed SSDF that running Rebel using the >>autoplayer makes no sense because the autoplayer software hurts the real >>playing strength of the program and I adviced the SSDF to test Century 1 >>manually. >> >>As a result Century 1 was not included on the SSDF list. I understand the >>pain of playing manual games and I respected your decision. >> >>With Century 3 the question came again. I told SSDF the same story, pointed >>the the manual that explains about the loss in playing strength and left >>the choice up to SSDF. >> >>It would have been best to follow the same procedure as last year with >>Century 1, that is, test Century 3 manually or don't play the thing at all. >> >>As long as you don't take a producer information serious you can't count >>on peoples sympathy. >> >>If you had taken the time and study Century 3 manual performance versus >>its autoplayer performance it is not so difficult to figure that Century 3 >>rating and place on your list highly doubtful. >> >>Just do your list a favor and take the trouble to play 100 manual games >>and you will be surprised. >> >>Ed > >I think that nearly every programmer/company has an excuse/explanation that >their program does not reach the results they think the program should have. > >Some examples: >Fritz 6 does not like the K6-2 450 >Hiarcs 7.32 has a bug with longer timecontrols >Gandalf 4.32 had a bad book-learning and are better with faster computers! >Century 3 plays bad due to the auto-player! > >etc. > >Venlig hilsen > >Hans Chr. Lykke (SSDF) Thank you for your most sensible and diplomatic answer. At least you are being honest. Ed
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