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Subject: Re: SSDF(Deep Fritz - Century 3)AMD K6-2 450, 3-1, now 18.5-6.5

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 11:36:34 01/18/01

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On January 18, 2001 at 06:18:37, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:

>On January 18, 2001 at 06:04:05, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>It is likely that it will hurt Rebels creditability, not the SSDF's. Consider
>>that. It might have been better to forbid publishing results gained by playing
>>auto232-games with Century 3. I would have done so.
>
>
>Before we started autoplaying Century 3, Ed expected C3 to come fifth ind the
>SSDF list. Well it did not, but it only miss it by 29 point, so IMO C3 is not
>doing that bad.

Not that bad, right. But bad enough and worse than the real strength.
Think of all the guys who look at the list at the top-3. Oops, no Century in
sight. Far away, so not worth any further look. I cannot say how much this hurts
Rebels reputation and sales, but it definitely does. Remember all the other
programs that performed worse in their predecessor version, like MChessPro. A
pity.





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