Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:10:42 02/15/03
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On February 15, 2003 at 07:01:46, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>On February 15, 2003 at 05:22:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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
>
>They shouldnt test what the programmers want them to test, they should test
>what the majority of the users want them to test.
>Therefore it was IMO correct to test the CB-GUI version of Shredder 7 and not
>the UCI-Version.
>On the other hand they should have tested Fritz 8 FIRST, even if they had to
>postpone the Shredder 7 test.
If you buy it and send it to them first they will test it first. I have no
doubt.
Albert
>Fritz 8 was available before Shredder 7 and the majority of the users wanted to
>know: Is Fritz 8 really stronger as Fritz 7 and Deep Fritz 7(on single
>processor) ?
>
>Michael
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