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Subject: Re: Rybka 13d is available

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 10:27:19 02/12/06

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On February 12, 2006 at 13:13:32, Uri Blass wrote:

>I can add that it is typical for you not to buy the best program.
>
>I know that you did not buy shredder and did not buy fruit and did not buy
>rybka.
>All of them are the programs that were the best at the time that they were
>released(Now rybka is the best and it dominates the rating lists).
>
>For some reason you care too much about book and you did not buy shredder
>because of not being able to use sandro's book outside of shredder gui.
>
>I think that no book is no problem and rybka with some external book simply
>dominates in chess servers and proves again that the main important factor is
>the engine and not the book because it is easy to make books.
>
>Book may be important factor when the difference between engines is small but
>good book is not very important in games when one engine is significantly
>better.
>
>Uri

I didn't purchase Shredder for several reasons, but the book was one of them.

Fruit was entirely other reasons, one being they used this forum as a marketing
tool, thus the reason I removed many of those posts. It was against the charter.
They chose sales over the integrity of this forum by totally disregarding the
charter about commercial sales advertising. If I was Steve, I would have been
_severely_ pissed at that group. It was nothing more than a slap in the face to
him.

I will _never_ purchase Rybka. Again this forum is being used as a marketing
tool and I am disgusted by it. It _was_ marketted right out of this forum, and
the users were the unknowning culprits.

I prefer to purchase programs where the author shows a shred of decency and
honour by not raping this forum for monetary gain.

Since I am a moderator though I can't state that I just did above. Apparently to
some here, one being a former moderator, I am not allowed to have opinions while
in this position. So you can just disregard all of the above :)

Peter



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