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Subject: Re: Shredder? Then please read this...

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 01:56:32 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 03:20:09, Gabor Szots wrote:

>Yes, even the day after Shredder won, he did not own the world title any longer.

There's really no such thing as a World Champion program by that definition. We
do not know about changes and modifications made on the program during the
event. Let's hope this doesn't lead to internal rivalry among the different
Shredder versions.

Actually, it's very comparable to say Formula One. The version of the car isn't
terribly important, Ferrari is current champion. Was there enough races to prove
that with certainty you may ask? Maybe not, but everyone knows and accepts the
conditions when participating.

>There should have been another WCCC immediately. And let's organize WCCC's until
>Shredder doesn't win, then we can claim we said it was not the best.
>This qualification is only for those hoping to replace Shredder for jealousy,
>greed, marketing (money) reasons.

Yes.

>And of course it is highly improbable that Shredder has been improved ever
>since.

It doesn't matter if the commercial version of Shredder tops the SSDF list or
not. The commercial version isn't playing and the conditions of play are wastly
different. And SSDF isn't a branch of ICCA.

The SSDF is a private organization that does a tremendous job of testing most
commercial and some free programs. However, it does not constitute a
qualification tournament for anything. It's a consumer measuring device and
nothing else.

Mogens.



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