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Subject: Re: Beta Testing Compensation

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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