Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 09:30:42 04/30/99
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So you're saying that now all games are saved, whereas in the early days they were not saved? I got the impression from the original poster that even now some games are not being made public. Seems to me that if a mechanism exists to make some of the games public, it can't be that much more work to make them ALL public. Roger On April 30, 1999 at 08:22:29, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On April 30, 1999 at 03:35:59, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>On April 29, 1999 at 17:41:12, Roger D Davis wrote: >> >>>If the results of the SSDF are claimed to be OBJECTIVE, then what is wrong with >>>making all the games public? The fact that some of the games are not public is >>>bound to draw suspicion. And it should. What does the SSDF gain by keeping >>>certain games private? Nothing that I can think of. The SSDF is not a commercial >>>entity, right? Then why keep some of the games private? >> >>You should take into account that they have been testing for a lot of years now; >>in the beginning with chess computers only, which would not support automatic >>storage of game notations. Furthermore, the PGN standard wasn't (well) known >>those days. So, I simply guess that they only have a fraction of the games, >>nicely stored on disk in PGN format. May be, some SSDF member can comment on >>this ? > >That's true. Nothing is *gained* from *hiding* games. It's all about increased >expectation on a low budget organisation. >From the beginning there was no need for all the games to be stored. It was just >a small club of members trusting each other and we had no reason not to. >After some time the rating lists were published outside this group and the >expectations increased. When all the games were requested it was to late to >reconstruct it all. Nothing more, nothing less. >Don't forget that in those days all the test objects were standalone >chess-computers and everything was done manually - move by move, day after >day... >//Peter
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