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Subject: Re: And the reason to purchase CSTal is what again?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:49:33 08/22/99

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On August 21, 1999 at 20:33:09, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello Pete,
>I'm sorry but I can not agree with you.  I told Chris about the losing on time
>problem the first week I owned the program.  It still is NOT fixed.  I have sent
>several emails concerning the fact that certain EGTB's will not work with
>CSTal-2(KPPKP,KQPKP).  The program crashes about every tenth game when running
>it on ICC as the relayer.  He was told about that and his answer was to the
>effect that that was "pretty good".

:-)))
You seem to be one of those customers who believe that when THEY want something,
other people have to jump.


>  In spite of the problems CSTal-2 has I
>still like it.  I am however disappointed in the attitude that the problems I
>mention are not important enough to fix.


try to convince the programmer in a more constructive way.
people normally react positive when you say something constructive.

>There is a problem in trying to run
>auto232 games vs a Fritz GUI program.  CSTal-2 will not properly work as the
>"Master" in this setup.  Part of the problem may lie with Chessbase and the way
>they implement the auto232.  So everything is not fixed.  I use CSTal-2 everyday
>on ICC/FICS and every day I lose games due to crashes.  I wish this were not the
>case but it is.  If you are not using the auto232 function you may very well be
>completely satisfied.  As I said, in spite of it's problems I still like the
>program.
>Jim Walker

:-)




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