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Subject: Re: SSDF Testing

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 07:58:19 06/16/05

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On June 16, 2005 at 06:15:23, Madhavan wrote:

>Does SSDF test free engines too?
>
>I'd like to see Fruit Massy compete in SSDF testing,since many testers have
>reported positive and acceptable results of Fruit Massy
>
>I have no idea why SSDF dont test Chessmaster 10000 and some private engines
>like Ferret etc

I guess they would use CM10000 in the future.........Using Chessmaster in
general is difficult because the Chessmaster GUI doesn't offer "auto-play", for
easy testing.......
 Ferret is a private engine so the author should give them the engine to test.
So the reason for not using Ferret is: Either the author has been asked but
refused OR the author hasn't been asked.


>
>is SSDF test more important than any other testers report?

Define "important" first.........

>why not put the "SSDF #1","SSDF #2" label on engine's product?
>
>is it right that if a programmer wants to get his engine tested,he'd have to buy
>the hardware for SSDF's and pay them some amount?

Nope.......

>if not hardware,are SSDF testing of program done using a same hardware in 2
>diffeent computers?

SSDF list consists of the following Chess playing entities:
"Engine 1 + Hardware 1", "Engine 2 + Hardware 2", ...., "Engine N + Hardeware N"
In the current list and to avoid making things complicated there are only 2
different hardware configurations.......

>
>why is there a lot of different crafty version results?why is there a
>chessgenius result?as we all know there are many programs that does well than
>chess genius.

 It's just a choice of people at SSDF what engines they choose......If you don't
agree and want other engines then make you own tests.....:-)

>
>could someone pleasy clarify this?



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