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Subject: Re: We need volunteers to compute a rating list based on public ssdf games

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 06:08:17 04/29/99

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On April 29, 1999 at 08:42:24, blass uri wrote:

>Most of the games of the ssdf are not public and we have no way to check if they
>really happened.
>

I cannot fully understand the motivation for this project.
Obviously, you distrust the SSDF. If this is the case, then why you trust in the
published games. These could be manipulated very well, though each of them being
reproducable. E.g. they would just have to skip some games with unwanted
results.

Thus, I do not see much sense in your project.

BTW - to avoid misunderstandings - it is not my opinion that the SSDF
manipulates. I personally think, that they give their best to get reliable
results.

Regards, Uli


>I agree to do part of the job and to find the results of part of the public ssdf
>games but if we want to have all the results then we need more people to do it.
>
>I hoped that a program can do it but I understand that probably no program is
>going to deal with it because the names of the programs in the pgn file of the
>games are not exactly the same(for example sometimes Fritz5 is called Fritz 5
>and sometimes it is called to Fritz 5.0) .
>
>I hope that after we have all the results then it will be easy to compute rating
>by a relevant program that get the names of the programs and the results.
>
>Uri



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