Author: Chessfun
Date: 12:57:49 03/05/04
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On March 05, 2004 at 15:51:47, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >On March 05, 2004 at 03:54:57, Afzal Siddique wrote: > >>Hello All, >> >>http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105063596 >> >>Afzal > > >I have never asked Vincent Diepeveen for money in order to test his program. >Neither SSDF nor it's testers have ever received any PC-hardware or money for >buying it, from programmers or program-selling companies. A vast majority of the >PCs which we have used for testing have been bought by the individual testers, >and the rest SSDF has bought with it's membership fees. I would seek legal advise as it is a posted fact on a website. >What we have received is only the program itself on diskettes or CDROMs. > >All games with PC-programs included in the SSDF rating list are played on two >separate PCs. We have not accepted dual machines and we have certainly not >played games on one single CPU PC only. Clearly Vincent has no clue nor idea of how you test. I doubt he has even downloaded a single game let alone the DB at Tony's site. >Match results presented by the program are not accepted. The end position in >each game is chequed on both programs. > >I admit that we haven't published all 96 451 games which presently is the base >for the list. There are limits for how much time and effort we want to spend on >our hobby. If someone wants to believe that we cheat with the unpublished games, >feel free to do it. > Even if we published all games included in the list, we >could probably still cheat, by playing even more games and then discarding >losses for our "favourites" and change dates and game numbers in the pgn-file. I personally wouldn't have written that, as it's stating the obvious. And were those games already available that is the accusation you would be dealing with. Keep up the good work and I hope all the SSDF people are able to ignore trolls like these SSDF threads are. Sarah.
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