Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 05:42:50 09/08/00
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On September 08, 2000 at 08:36:53, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Not really. I tested much more for Rebel, Tiger, Hiarcs and others, and I always got the final version. I understood that this was always done to all beta-testers. Your case is unfortunate and, I hope, unique. Enrique >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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