Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:18:57 06/22/03
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On June 22, 2003 at 18:00:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 19, 2003 at 09:19:27, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: > >>On June 19, 2003 at 06:13:20, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>and not to deliver it IN the package. >>> >>> >>>such a product is against the german law. >>> >>>the law says: what is announced must be IN the product. >>>Otherwise the company is not allowed to sell the product. >> >>This is rubbish, Thorsten. >> >>According German law Terry has the right to return the Junior 8 CD because it >>did not include the promised Kasparov engine. He should get his money back. If >>he wants to, he may buy Deep Junior 8. If not, he may keep on using some other >>engine and spend his money on other things. End of story. >> >>Andreas > >Not true. It heavily depends upon what type of product you sell. For example if >you sell the product bread and it has on the package "no gelatin/gluten in this >product". Then suddenly people die in hospital a few months later becuase it did >have just as much gelatin/gluten inside it as normal bread, then you can get in >prison. > >In this case it's about software product. So things are not so clear here. Who >cares btw for a 'kasparov' engine. > >It is common knowledge that the sold junior engines are NOT producing the same >level of play it produces in the world champs computerchess. In short the >commercial juniors are IMHO a lot weaker than the stuff the play with in >worldchamps (if you do not believe that they were just plain lucky to win 3 >world titles computerchess that is). There are other possibilities. For example it is possible that Junior has different personality against different programs and when it plays a game Amir changes some parameters based on the opponent. Uri
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