Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:36:53 09/08/00
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On September 08, 2000 at 07:38:18, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On September 07, 2000 at 18:13:54, Uri Blass wrote: > >>The purpose is to help the programmer to produce a better version. >>In my case I got only the beta software. >> >>The beta that I got is better than the previous commercial program but weaker >>than the commercial program of today. >> >>I do not know if it is always the case. > >It is definitely not, at least in my experience. I always got the final, >commercial release of the program I tested. If the programmer asks me to beta >test his program, I do and later on he doesn't send me the final copy I would >take it not so well. But, as I said, it has never happened. In my case when I tested Junior4.9 I got only .dll files from Amir Ban .dll file was enough for the beta version that were 16 bits but was not enough for the final version that was 32 bit. I know that thorsten czub also got the same 16 bit version and could not get the 32 bit version because his bad relations with chessbase. I did not attack chessbase like thorsten but I also criticized chessbase for the secret autoplayer at that time and I did not think to try to ask chessbase to give me the 32 bit interface. The final product was of Chessbase and Amir and I tested only for Amir. I think that your case is different because you tested for chessbase. I did not ask Amir for the engine without the new interface and I do not know if there was a technical problem for him to send it to me but I used the engine mainly in engine-engine games and getting the engine without the interface was not productive for me(It could be productive for thorsten because he used the engine in games with 2 computers but I do not know if it was easy for Amir to change the engine to work not under chessbase and it is possible that this job demanded him at least some hours that he did not want to waste). Uri
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