Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:32:35 09/06/00
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On September 06, 2000 at 17:29:41, Steven Schwartz wrote: >Thanks to José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba we have a new >poll question. It appears to be a hot topic here now. > >You are invited to vote at the CCC polling site: >http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/poll/index.shtml I voted for paying more for the beta testers but I think that it is dependent in the job that they do. If the testers do the job that I read that the chessmaster8000 beta testers did(only playing 30 games against different personalities at fast time control) then I think that getting the new version is enough(I think that in this case they also get the real new version) If the testers help the programmers by giving ideas and not only play some hours against the program then it is not enough. I could abstain but I felt that I had to vote for the beta testers after I read the idea that the programmers do the beta testers a favour. The beta testers can test the commercial programs and I do not see the big advantage of getting it some monthes before the release of a new version when beta testers do not get even it because they get only the beta version that they test that is usually slightly weaker. In my case the fact that I was a beta tester of Junior4.x did not save me from buying Junior5 in order to test later Junior5.x Uri
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