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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating List 03-02-13

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:22:05 02/15/03

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On February 15, 2003 at 03:29:26, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On February 14, 2003 at 08:38:22, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On February 14, 2003 at 08:25:58, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>
>>>I think that programs in the order for being tested am, how they are sold
>>>commercially after date!
>>>
>>>S7 was sold about one month later, than Fritz 8!!!
>>>
>>>Thus normally now first Fritz 8 should be tested.
>>>
>>>I go of it out of that ChessBase Fritz 8 yet did not submit.
>>>
>>>Why not?
>>>
>>>ChessBase know why.
>>>
>>>;-)
>>>
>>>Eduard
>>
>>Are you suggesting they withheld Fritz 8 because they knew it would perfomr
>>better and might hurt Shredder 7 sales, or that Fritz 8 might actually not do so
>>good (unlikely) in which case it might hurt sales of Fritz 8?
>>
>>                                      Albert
>
>SSDF has to be criticized. They claim to be independent, but in fact they are
>not more than a sales argument for Chessbase. They shouldnt have tested Shredder
>7 before they test Fritz 8.

I think that they test what the programmers want them to test.
It has nothing to do with chessbase.

Uri



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