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Subject: Re: I appreciate the decision of the SSDF

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 16:01:15 10/31/03

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On October 31, 2003 at 16:34:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 31, 2003 at 16:20:42, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>Of course there is the moral question. But SSDF was so many times accused of
>>not testing the TOP-Engines which are not from Chessbase and were so many times
>>accused to test in favor of Chessbase, that I think it is a good decision to
>>test the strongest Setting of The King with a decent book.
>
>If SSDF did not want to play manual games with The King, it was the
>responsibility of the company selling The King to help them getting
>it tested automatically.
>
>If they don't want to do this, there should be no reason to thank them
>for that by giving The King a totally unfair advantage.
>
>In case it still hasn't gotten through, a good book and a good learner
>represent a significant time and research investment and I'd be damn pleased
>if someone could tell me why The King gets it for free while programs like
>Rebel, ChessTiger and Ruffian have to make their own.
>
>--
>GCP


A small correction:  Ruffian has had _no_ learner in his SSDF testing.  Ruffian
does _not_ learn as a UCI engine yet, only as WB engine... (Per-Ola admits that
it's his own fault).  On the other hand, Ruffian has used his own book.

Djordje



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