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Subject: Re: "I would still like to see the SSDF testing the SKR settings"

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 02:14:42 11/01/03

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On October 31, 2003 at 05:05:49, Chessfun wrote:

>On October 31, 2003 at 02:40:26, Johan de Koning wrote:
>
>>On October 30, 2003 at 14:32:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I don't understand why ChessMaster is allowed to use a Kure book (general.ctg)
>>>in the SSDF testing.
>>
>>The SSDF is allowed to test anything they want.
>>That's the bottom line, even though it is the top line in this case.
>>
>>Pleasing everyone is nice, as long as you're able to do so.
>>When more than 1 player is involved it's a different story.
>>
>>>Last time this happened (with Gromit) it was specifically said by Alex Kure
>>>that it was _not_ allowed to use the Fritz books to test anything other
>>>than Fritz. So why is ChessMaster using it now? Did Kure give permission
>>>(which I seriously doubt)?
>>>
>>>IMHO using the ChessBase learner for ChessMaster is also very questionable.
>>
>>Wel, here's something we agree on.
>>For different reasons I guess, since IMHO learning should always be turned off.
>>But we might as well revive the cooked book discussion of many years ago, and
>>demand that the SSDF will only test fixed starting positions. Which BTW will
>>eventually happen, when o-books are regarded as merely WC preparation.
>>
>>... Johan
>
>Posted by : Johan de Koning on May 24, 2003 at 23:06:09
>
>"Also I would still like to see the SSDF testing the SKR settings if that's OK
>with them. But due to technical difficulties that's looking like a long term
>plan at the moment. :-)"
>
>Did you have any communication with the SSDF regarding using CM9K with these
>settings? and have they used these upon your recommendation?.

Yes, I did have brief communications with SSDF's Petterson ans SKR's Kurt.
Though I didn't make any hard recomendations, the consensus seemed to be
that the Sedat-Kurt-Rolf settings were the obvious way to test CM9's engine,
assuming there was only 1 to choose.

That happened before the above quote.

[enlightnment section]
Q: What is Ebbis?
A: Ebbis (Ebbi's) is short for Eberhard Boerger's WinBoard232.exe, which is
   a program that behaves as a WB engine on one end and an Auto232 interface
   on the other end. That way a WB-GUI (like CM8000) can be tricked into
   playing a game through cable without even knowing it.
[back to now]

>Did you not
>discuss using CM9K with Ebbis autoplayer with the SSDF rather than using
>general.ctg and a CB gui?.

This subject was dropped when the issue shfited to TK-under-CB.
As I mentioned 10 days ago, I failed to bring it up again. :-(

... Johan



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