Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 19:13:11 05/12/02
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Steve, Ed Schroeder has done this. His Rebel Decade program was an intro to the bigger and better programs. Seriously, for $50.00 you can get new programs that are not second rate. The programmers want you to buy their program and not just try it. It they were selling cars then that trial period would make sense. In short, there is not enough money in computer chess to do this. Tim Frohlick On May 12, 2002 at 22:06:27, Steve wrote: > I am curious as to why more programmers don't make short-lived trial >versions of their programs available for download. In deciding what engines to >buy, I am not really interested in whether Program A is 15 points better than >Program B running on the fastest available software. I'm interested in the >engine's style and features, running on the computer that I have. The only way >to assess that is to try out the engine -- in a version that becomes inoperative >after, say, two or three days. Are there technical obstacles to making engines >available in this way, or is there some other reason why this is not widely >done?
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