Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:19:36 04/27/98
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On April 27, 1998 at 16:43:58, Mark Young wrote: >Let us not confuse marketing strategy with so kind of high ideals of >fair play. >In view of any proof of cheating on Fritz 5’s part. One must conclude >that some of the other programmers feel they no longer can compete >inside of SSDF. As they scratch for a few more points with every new >version its seems to be in there monetary interest to take this kind of >action. As it looks like it would take them a long time to over take >Fritz 5 with its 55-point lead on the SSDF list. This is a marketing >war. And in this war if some find it necessary to try and kill off >SSDF as a counter action in this war, then so be it. There is no brother >hood of chess programmers. It’s every man for him self. This is a risky >strategy on the part of some. I guess they feel if the prize of being #1 >on the SSDF list is out of reach. Its better to try and destroy that >prize then let ChessBase have long term gain with it. > > Mark Young You may have a point there, providing you exclude Ed from the picture you describe. He wrote the special program to check autoplayers and he posted the results when nothing wrong was found. About this issue Ed and I have a very different position, but I would never, ever, doubt the sincerity of his motives. One more thing: Rebel 10 looks so good that I doubt very much Ed has any fears regarding its performance. Enrique
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