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Subject: SSDF and Autoplayer - Accurate Rankings ????????

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 21:17:47 11/09/98


I think SSDF's decision to only test programs with Autoplayers is a Joke, As I
posted earlier regarding Chessmaster.

I think CM6000 is easily in the top 5 of the strongest programs, but hey we will
never know because SSDF who brings out this unoffical listing saying which is
the strongest program has decided, well if the programmers are not going to put
in a feature that makes things easier for them, then to hell with that program,
what RUBBISH, what GALL.

I already think SSDF ratings are a bit off sometimes, well maybe one reason that
I do not pay to much attention to them anymore. They are not really a reflection
of the strength of computer programs today. They are a reflection of a select
group of programs that have a feature (Autoplayer), and well if you do not have
this feature and even if you have the strongest program, then you will not get
on their little list.

Until I can see a whole new approach to their rankings then I am not going to
pay to much attention to them, at the moment they are rubbish.




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