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Subject: Re: SSDF and the programmers............

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:44:15 03/18/98

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On March 18, 1998 at 18:01:26, Ed Schröder wrote:

>Right.
>
>Bruce, if the SSDF people ask you to test Ferret for the list would you
>do it? I mean in principal?

Maybe, I don't know.  They've never asked me.

I don't have an autoplayer version, secret or public, other than the ICC
version, which plays its games in public.

I would have a lot of worries about getting on the Swedish list.  You've
had some problems with testers not using configurations you've
specified.  I would be worried about this and about the use of
sub-optimal hardware, and about getting a wide variety of games versus a
wide variety of opponents.

I don't know much about how they do their testing, but allowing anyone
else to have some say about my reputation would worry me, obviously.

There's so much incentive to be high on the list that I would worry
about my competitors doing strange things to skew the results.  I don't
know whether Ossi has a real complaint or whether he's just being
paranoid, but the fear that something weird will happen to you has got
to be quite real.

bruce



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