Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:23:30 03/05/04
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On March 05, 2004 at 03:54:57, Afzal Siddique wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105063596
>
>Afzal
I take it that this accusation can be substantiated?
"DIEP is not at SSDF because i refused to pay them. it is a paid list. When you
do not ship them a computer or 2 (say $10000) you cannot join in that list in
such a way that they directly test your program. Instead they wait then till
there is newer books from other programs that can kill you. I refused to do
that. I would say now to Karlsson (head of the list) who asked me those 2
computers: "You are a surgeon, you can pay for your own hardware"."
The following comment also needs a bit of clarifiying:
"Further there gets used a lot of tricks in SSDF. The protocol to play other
programs has a 100 tricks in order to fool you.
Example if you play single cpu with an UCI engine against fritz8 at a single
cpu, it will eat 80% system time on average versus your engine 20%."
The way it is phrased, one could easily end up thinking the SSDF actually uses
single CPUs to play the matches, as opposed to two separate computers.
I mean, you'd think that all UCI engines were immediately condemned, instead of
the no. 1 in the SSDF list actually being a UCI version of an engine as is the
case.
Albert
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