Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:12:07 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 00:51:24, Mike S. wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 15:50:26, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>You are very much right there! But I guess ChessBase could do >>something about this by making the Fritz.ctg's only accessable >>to the Fritz engines. Should not be such a big problem to >>accomplish, I guess. > >What a strange idea... computer chess products usually are for the user (to >99,9%), not just for "official" computer chess competitions alone. > >That type of "technical" book/engine restriction you suggest, would mean users >wouldn't have free choice of book/engine combinations anymore. Which is one of >the *main advantages* of that modular concept in professional GUIs, where you >can freely choose (m)any combinations of GUI/engine/book as desired. > >You're suggesting a step backwards into chess software neanderthal. :o)) > >Please don't forget about the end-users (=customers) and *their* demands, these >are *much* more important than developer's competition issues. *They* make >professional computer chess possible, not SSDF nor ICCA. > >Fairness of testing by a major result statistics source is a different issue, >but it shouldn't be mixed up with everyday computer chess practise. We all >probably will agree that CCC doesn't reflect "normal" chess live, but I'm even >beginning to doubt, how much of "normal computer chess live" it reflects... > >Regards, >M.Scheidl It's interesting how you mist to comment on the question. Since I have a bit experience from debates with you in CSS the computerchess journal very closely related with ChessBase, since F. Friedel is a leading member in both, I know what your're trying to achieve. You're trying to define reality, usually the job of ideologists. To understand what you mean it is helpful to keep in mind a few of the companies possible interests. The question here was why the prog GROMIT was allowed to play with FRITZ 7 ctg. Allowed to play in the cyber space of amateurs end-users (customers)??? Of course _not_! GROMIT played with the FRITZ 7 ctg in SSDF! Yes! Please could you be so kind and crawl back to find a reasonable definition for the allowance, perhaps fairness is another important term to define here, of such a malpractice? What is the official position of ChessBase? Rolf Tueschen (formerly known as 'Schachfan' in the CSS forum and always posting questions and explanations with highly diplomatical terminology and then excluded because of politely put questions to the known exclusion of the then leading SHREDDER in the Enrique I. and SSDF affaires, which meant that companies are trying to define the allowance of important critical questions... which is _not_ democracy, excuse the audacious conclusion, but I spend a lot of thoughts here) P.S. Since the region is almost my home I beg you to correct your use of the word 'Neandertal', thank you. 'Tal' means 'valley' in German. :)
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