Author: stuart taylor
Date: 09:32:14 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 11:49:37, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On November 19, 2002 at 10:10:01, Ricardo R Santana wrote: > >>Quite simple: "they" did not want chessmaster 9000 (expecially the new >>personality) to get first place !! Can you imagine some deep xxxx - who draw >>against a great k player - not in the first place ??? >> >>and by that way, who cares about it ? I am sure this discution will not get too >>long and nothing will happen. >> >>thanks >>Ricardo Sant Ana >> >>PS: I am sure new cm9000 personality will beat the new deep xxxx .....BTW, could>anyone suggest a good ssdf rating for the new cm9000 personality ?? > >In my opinion your "accusation" against SSDF is not at all justified. They are >doing a great job and they play thousands of games with no intention to prefer a >specific program. SSDF have however always stated that they are only testing >programs with default style and books and this may be the reason why Chessmaster >8000/9000 is not better classified in the SSDF rating list. >Kurt Maybe you are being over humble, but I'm sure that CM9K would like to make the "Utzinger" settings as the defualt setting. Why can't they say that it is now, and whoever wants can make it like that himself, until a patch does it? And ssdf can test that too, since it's a clear preference, I'd think. Not just a mere personality. S.Taylor
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