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Subject: Re: Rybka delays and vasik's chance to react to new fruit and shredder

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 02:50:34 02/24/06

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On February 24, 2006 at 03:32:57, Gilles Garrigues wrote:

>On February 24, 2006 at 02:52:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 2006 at 02:29:15, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>>
>>>I am pleased that Vasik will keep giving us updates to may 1. This will allow
>>>him to react to the newest release of fruit and shreder (in march i presume).
>>>Will one or two months be enough time to tune against these new engines?
>>>best
>>>joseph
>>
>>I do not think that chess programming is about tuning.
>>
>>It is about improvement.
>>It is not clear if the improvement in fruit and shredder is going to be enough
>>to catch rybka of the same time.
>>
>>We are going to wait and see.
>>
>>Fruit and Shredder can also give updates for their engine in the first months
>>after the release of these programs.
>>It means that even if vasik knows that he has something better than commercial
>>fruit and commercial shredder he cannot be sure that it is enough for the first
>>place because at the same day that he release it an update for the opponents may
>>be released.
>>
>>Uri
>
>It is OK for Beta testers (free of charge) to take such delays but it is
>depressing for the people who sent their money to see promised deadlines being
>ignored several times.
>
>Keeping your word in business is of paramount importance !!
>
>Of course this does not change the fact that Rybka is already a great engine ...

I think that people who paid, were interested in Rybka coming out best, best it
can be, and that further improvements will be considered even MORE than they
expected for their money. The beta's are anyway good enough for what they
themselves had wanted, at about the right time, aren't they?
S.Taylor



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