Author: Jan-Frode Myklebust
Date: 10:55:00 02/28/98
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On February 28, 1998 at 12:28:00, Peter Schreiner wrote: [snip] >The published list of the SSDF is a trusted source of information for >many years. The basic >principle of the SSDF was, that chess programs and computers were tested >ONLY in EXACTLY THE >SAME FORM, as they were AVAILABLE in the public. This basic principle is >the argument, which made >the SSDF ratings VALUABLE for all interested people. One additional >aspect is the fact, that the >SSDF is non-commercial. Okay until now ? > >Now, in my knowledge for the first time, the SSDF allowed a producer of >chess software, to participate >with a SPECIAL hardware/software configuration, which is in difference >to MChess, Rebel,Hiarcs, Genius etc. >NOT COMMERCIALLY available !! So for me it`s absolutly uninteresting, >what you or anybody else believe. I >see there some danger, that in the future the SSDF rating list will >become WORTHLESS , unless >they will return to their basic principles. > I just want to add that I don't think this is completely true. I believe Junior was on that list for a long time, before it was available to the public. >Looking to the SSDF-Ratinglist from the 22.02.98 I want to discuss the >following points with my friends >here in CCC : > >1.)In difference to ALL other programs in the list Fritz 5 have been >tested with a special Powerbook, which is normal NOT delivered with >Fritz 5 ! Some guys told us here -- I think it was Moritz -- that the >book wasn`t tuned against other programs. But this is not my point : >this special book wasn`t supplied with F5, why did the SSDF accept this >? It says on <http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-36794/ssdf/comment.htm> that fritz 5 was tested with mostly with the Powerbook (isn't it the same Powerbook commersially available?), and with ordinary book. > >3.) If you read the magazine CSS = ComputerSchach & Spiele then you `ll >find in earlier editions a lot of >results between Fritz 5 against some other programs like Rebel, Genius >or MChess. So in consequence this >autoplayer was available for ChessBase since summer. The SSDF received >this special autoplayer some months later. Perhaps you can agree, that >this procedure makes me a little bit sceptical...... I think we should trust chessbase. > >4.) The SSDF - Version of Fritz 5 requires 64 MB RAM size for minimum. >This request is absolutly unusual and a privilege, which no other has >demanded. Perhaps we see in the future the programm "kalashinkov X.Y.", >which requires a minimum of Pentium II 400 MHz, 256 MB RAm ....etc. > How much memory does the other top programs use in the tests? I don't think 64 MB RAM is unreasonable, as long as it's not more than the other programs. >The SSDF shouldn`t allow these special conditions and continue the >testwork with their well known basic principles --> testing only >programs in a commercially available form, to which every computer chess >fan in the world has access. Again. They have tested unavailable programs before. janfrode
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