Author: Johan Havegheer
Date: 12:31:04 03/12/98
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On March 12, 1998 at 01:37:02, Komputer Korner wrote: >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. Yes KK , This is what i call GETTING TO the Point !
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