Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 08:40:27 03/12/98
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>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. Well said KK. Equal chances gives an equal fight. - Ed Schroder -
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