Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 22:37:02 03/11/98
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On March 03, 1998 at 05:20:23, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >On March 03, 1998 at 00:59:02, Aaron wrote: > >>Hello . I was wondering if someone could enlighten me about the relative >>chess strenghts of the following chess programs >> >> >>1) Virtual Chess 2. I have heard that this is a rather strong program. >>But Why isn't this program listed on the Swedish chess computer ratings >>lists? > >Two reasons: Because the programmers haven't sent any copies of Virtual >Chess 2 to SSDF for testing. SSDF cannot afford to buy several copies of >all new programs. > >Even if we received copies of Virtual Chess 2, we probably couldn't get >enough games (>100) since as far as I know you cannot use auto232 for >testing. Nowadays only a couple of our testers want to test manually. > >Thoralf Karlsson >SSDF Thoralf, 99.9% of everyone respects your hard work and that of your testers but if you don't require all autotest drivers to be made public before you test, I am afaid that your list is doomed because one by one the programmers will withdraw their public autotest drivers since Chessbase refuses to release theirs. You may end up in a situation where they send their secret autotest drivers to your organization. This will be a sad day for others who will want to autotest as well. Overtime, even the secret arrangement won't work because some will not trust that it will remain secret and thus your list will lose potential candidates. An SSDF list with only 1/2 the participants will lose its credibility. I believe that only the following will be work. All autotest drivers and all software be commercially available. The only other solution could be to accept opening book upgrades from the programmers at any time. I do not profess to tell you what to do but I would hate to see all your good work come to naught over the issue of secret autotesters.
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