Author: Uri Blass
Date: 18:14:46 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 19:36:45, Arnold Gove wrote: >On February 24, 2006 at 10:44:31, Arnold Gove wrote: > >>On February 24, 2006 at 06:33:40, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>On February 24, 2006 at 06:24:08, Arnold Gove wrote: >>> >>>>We paid for Rybka expecting a full version in February, now we are to presume >>>>that it will be issued some time before May - we hope. >>>> >>>>Don't bother saying that the betas we've been paying for are strong - the free >>>>version is nearly as good. >>>> >>>>AG >>> >>>I'm sure Vassiks intention was what he had promised. Maybe he should have made a >>>clause to allow for any unforseen circumstances. >>>However, what did Rybka users want? Surely they wanted a Rybka which is really a >>>Rybka. Not some dissapointing thing which is released "on time". >>> Do you mean, he should have released something disappointing, but with all the >>>works in it, and then made corrections later? >>>Or are you asking that the impossible should have been done, on time, and since >>>it wasn't, you want your money back? If so, did you ask? >>>(Or maybe you also want compensation for the trouble it takes you to ask it >>>back)? >>>S.Taylor >> >>I repeat, we paid for Rybka expecting a full version by now. Unfortunately, we >>haven't been offered an explanation for the delay, just a marketing survey. >>Vasik certainly can't be accused of underpromotion, unlike his engine. >> >>AG > >To quote from the Rybka website... > >======================== > > Purchase Rybka 1 series > >Note: This purchase contains all Rybka versions until May 1, 2006. > >Price: 34 Euro > >Components covered by purchase: > > * All Rybka Beta versions until May 1, 2006 > >======================== > >NB The purchase contains all the BETA versions until May. Is that what we paid >for? > >AG No I paid only for all the versions until february. I am happy to get more than what I paid for. I expected to get only 50 elo improvement relative to the version that was for download. It seems that I am going to get more than it because rybka of today is already at similiar level to the level that I expected from rybka1.2 and I will probably get a stronger rybka. Uri
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