Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:25:12 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 20:06:37, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >OK. I understand. > >So maybe we can find a way to agree somehow. > >Let's say the list is not perfect due to lack of physical resources, that it is >necessarily unfair because every program cannot be tested on every hardware, but >that the people doing the list are trying to make it as fair as possible given >the physical limitations they have to deal with. > >If we at least agree that they are trying to do their best and that it's not >easy for them to please everyone, well that's a good compromise. I happen to agree with your assessment. An interesting subplot is that the SSDF is supposed to be in league with the evil Chessbase empire (or so the story goes). But Chess Tiger is a Rebel product in direct competition with Chessbase. Shouldn't Chess Tiger have been tested on a Commodore 64 in order to make it look bad? How is it that an upstart should suddenly shine like the sun and get the good hardware? I suspect that the following is true: 0. A tester has a copy of C.T. (Hmmm... call me dense -- I just noticed that the initials match with Christophe Theron) and is also enamored with the product and so decided that this was the test they would like to attempt. 1. C.T. provides a simple testing interface so that it is not too difficult to run the tests (some sort of autoplayer ability) I could be wrong on both counts but it seems plausible to me. I don't see any evil corruption by the SSDF at all -- but maybe I'm just naiive. ;-)
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