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Subject: Re: My Thanks to the SSDF!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:19:19 01/29/99

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On January 29, 1999 at 22:03:35, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>On January 29, 1999 at 14:44:45, Matt Frank wrote:
>
>>I am happy to see your comments. I too, agree that the SSDF tries to be a
>>rigorous as possible in their comparisons. I would bet that some of the sour
>>grapes we read about, come from disgruntled purchasers of chess playing software
>>that does not get rated as highly as they had hoped.
>>
>>Matt Frank
>
>Not sour grapes on my part, whats the point when Rebel 10 or CM6K are not even
>on the list, we all know why this is. Until you can include all programs and
>play them on equal hardware, then the SSDF is nothing more than a joke.
Who gets to make the rules?  Those programs do not have autoplayers.  The Rebel
company *specifically asked* _not_ to be included in the list.  If you want to
test hundreds of CM6000 games manually, I will guarantee you that the SSDF will
be happy to accept them from you.  Are you up to it?




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