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Subject: Re: Is SSDF sponsored by Chessbase?

Author: Rex

Date: 01:40:01 05/29/03

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I too have my suspitions.  I keep hearing about King not having automove and is
the sorry reason why its not tested, yet King wins Lieden without automove.
There is always some excuse and you will see posts showing these excuses why
chessbase is not sponsoring SSDF.  People usually dont like change but in this
case if people like Kurt Utzinger decided to compose some type of fair and
balanced Computer Chess Test Organization, I believe you will find the Computer
Chess Industry excepting the tested results.



On May 29, 2003 at 04:16:15, James Constance wrote:

>From Chessbase.com
>
>Shredder tops the computer rankings – again!
>28.05.2003 This must be a bit alarming for Fritz. For the second time in a row
>Shredder has topped the SSDF (Chess Computer Association) ranking list, based on
>over 90,000 games played by 253 computers. Interestingly, the first program that
>is not published by ChessBase is ranked number 14. Blush.
>
>I think it's a bit rich that they claim the top 13 positions, bearing in mind
>the King is not being tested and Rebel is only in position 14 because there are
>multiple versions of Shredder, Fritz and Chess Tiger.
>
>I do not feel that the list portrays engine strength very objectively.  I'm all
>for another list.



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