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Subject: Re: The SSDF should only test once a year !

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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