Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 01:47:22 05/20/03
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On May 20, 2003 at 03:22:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: >I believe that all the volunteer testers of the SSDF deserve a big break from >testing. There is no reason why we need more than one SSDF Rating List by the >end of each year, since if a new or a few new versions of programs are released >we can alway buy them and test them against our other programs and pretty much >get an Idea of how strong the new versions are in comparison to the previous >programs that we already owned. I strongly believe that by the SSDF testing >three times a year, it takes our initiative to buy those new versions and test >them ourselves. Plus, the SSDF testers are only volunteers which should not be >wasting their precious time, instead of doing something more important with >their families. > That would solve one of my main critics against SSDF but you will see, SSDF is not suffering under the burden, they have a clear motivation to be in the business as a leading force and not as an examining power, not to speak of science. As long as ChessBase makes advertisements with SSDF places and SSDF Elo [!] SSDF has no reason to take care of their families... EXCUSE me, actually they do care! >Jorge
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