Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:23:03 06/04/98
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Hi Bruce: You are right but maybe you are asking too much if you ask full honesty from commercial people only interested in selling rates, not elo rating. The histiory of fake titles and illusory championships in computer chess would give room to for an entire book, as you know very well. All the time advertising use misleading words to get one more idiot buying what they sell. Surely you remember the many ads published in the same magazines you have called where nobody seem to worry about the fact Action chess ratings elo's are presented as aS normal chess ratings, giving the impression that a 2300 or so machine won that rating in a 2 hours/40 moves torunament. I remember a full article by larry Kaufman in Computer Chess Report, paper version and vintage, where he gave one example after another about this pRactice that begun in the middle of the 80's . Maybe one of the most importants taks to be performed here would be to disclaim that advertising that is appearing all the time from the deceiving pens of advertising writers. Thorought the organization proposed by Alan Tomalty or that begun by Ed, maybe in both, we should not only just put the programs in order of rating strenght, but clearly and openly and strongly publish the names of the products that pretend to be what they are not. Not necesary to say, there is a mmore ore than an example this year. Regards fernando
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