Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:05:36 11/22/00
Just a simple question: if Rebel Tiger cannot mate with bishop and knight, as has been said here and nobody has rejected that statement, what kind of work beta testers did? Or maybe I am mistaken about what a beta tester does? I supposed that it is a heavy work, a systematic effort to grasp problems. Now it seems to me it is not so, at least not always. It seems more or less as a review where you play the program and from time to time you write a note or two about the Gui or something than can appear during the game. So if not bishop+knight situation appears, the problems is not grasped. In fact, that kind of endings are very rare, but then, if beta testing is just to look at just what appears, I wonder which is the difference between betatesting and toying. I have never offered myself to beta testing nothing because precisely of that: I have no time not the desire to do such a heavy effort in detail. Sometimes in the past I have reviewed programs -programs that I have bought- and I did that in confessed subjetive terms, so everyone has been free to take it as a entertaiment or as some kind of light info, but of course nobody, never, thought I was doing a full job of the kind K.K - Alan Tomalty- did. So my point is: please, do not engage in such comitments unless you are prepared to go to the end. Do not do that because I put my faith in what you test, other people put his faith also and so decisions are taken because we think "well, all these enthusiastic beta tester cannot be wrong". Just a last thing: I do not say this from a disppointment with Rebel Tiger. I like it very much and I am sure that anyway Theron will deliver a patch long before I ever reach an ending of that kind: in fact it will never happen because I always surrender with just one pawn less. My disappointment is with my fellows here, specially with those that sometimes make his comments from the highness of his status as beta testers but then, out of the blue, facts show thet did not perform the work as was due to be done. Sorry if I hurt somebody. All this is writen under the premise B+N mates are not in Tiger capabilities by now. Fernando
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