Author: Mark Young
Date: 11:24:28 03/17/98
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On March 17, 1998 at 06:25:55, Ossie Weiner wrote:
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>The Fritz 5 scandal
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>8. The SSDF - an organisation in trouble?
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>Once again I want to point out that I have very high respect for the
>immense work of the voluntary members of the SSDF. They have done an
>unbelievable amount of work and achieved something important for the
>entire
>chess world. Certainly the SSDF cannot be blamed for the current
>development. They just wanted to be friendly to ChessBase and accepted
>their SPECIAL REQUESTS (in German: EXTRAWURST).
>That was a serious mistake which needs to be corrected, the sooner the
>better. If not, we will see lots of "Formula 1 programs" in the near
>ChessBase.
>If an autoplayer isn't commercially available it should be simply banned
>from testing. Otherwise the SSDF rating list will soon become worthless,
>as
>"out-of-the-box" programs won't be rated anymore.
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"Certainly the SSDF cannot be blamed for the current development" This
is the biggest bunch of B.S. I have ever seen. How can you say this? Its
SSDF that tested Fritz 5. Its SSDF that knew that Fritz 5 would only
play with 44 mb of hash. Its SSDF that posted the results. I have gone
over the SSDF games played by Fritz 5. I can not find any move or eval
that there Fritz 5 played that my copy of Fritz 5 does not play. If you
know of any games where the move or eval differ please post the game. I
don't know for sure if Fritz 5 is the best program out. But I know from
my testing so far Fritz 5 is in the top 2 or 3.
Mark Young.
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