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Subject: Re: A New CCC Poll Question At Last!!!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:50:05 09/06/00

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On September 06, 2000 at 18:32:35, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

I can add that I do not blame other people for this fact and it is my fault that
I tried to give ideas when I was not asked for it but I understand that other
people see the job of the beta tester as giving more than games so I had to vote
for the beta testers.

If there was a clear definition of the beta tester as someone that has a job to
work not more than 10-15 hours and give only games then I could vote in a
different way.

Uri

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