Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 16:19:11 03/20/98
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On March 18, 1998 at 20:44:15, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. This is probably because of two reasons. The first, and least important, is that Ferret isn´t available to the general public. But we have tested a few of those before (Gandalf, Junior, Comet), so this isn´t a major issue. The second reason is that we somehow got the impression from some of your comments a few months ago that you didn´t want Ferret to be tested by the SSDF. If we were wrong or you have changed your mind, you are welcome to send Thoralf or me a mail. Paul > >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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