Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:40:45 03/19/98
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>Posted by Bruce Moreland on March 18, 1998 at 20:44:15: >In Reply to: Re: SSDF and the programmers............ posted by Ed Schröder >on March 18, 1998 at 18:01:26: >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. Adding the AUTO232 code is a one day job. You only have to sent the moves played by Ferret to the printer. The supplied NONAME driver does the rest. >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. Sometimes these things do happen. Only on very rare occasions. There are now some complaints about wrong game scores. If so they will be corrected. In general I would give the Swedish a 9.8 on this part. >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 is indeed some risk :)) >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. All clear, thanks. - Ed - >bruce
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