Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:57:32 12/15/02
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On December 15, 2002 at 06:33:24, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >On December 15, 2002 at 04:40:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On December 14, 2002 at 09:20:13, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 2002 at 21:44:33, Arshad F. Syed wrote: >>> >>>>On December 13, 2002 at 21:27:18, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 13, 2002 at 20:55:59, Arshad F. Syed wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I just purchased the book 'Scaleable Search in Computer Chess'. It starts off >>>>>>well giving a good overview of the main topics and advances in modern CC, but it >>>>>>falters badly towards the end. There are no less than 50 pages dedicated to game >>>>>>results and scores. I am getting a migraine just trying to figure out who the >>>>>>target audience could possibly be for these drab game scorecards?? It seems like >>>>>>the author was trying to market his thesis! With all those test results bundled >>>>>>in, at first glance that is what it looks like - an excellent thesis. >>>>>> >>>>>>As if that was not enough, the price is at a premium - $55 for approx. 300 >>>>>>pages. Darn, even those C++ bibles with 1200+ pages cost less and come with a CD >>>>>>too. >>>>> >>>>>You were not forced to buy the thesis. I am not forced to answer your post. >>>>> >>>>>Alessandro >>>> >>>>I didn't force anyone to read my post. Like it or ignore it! >>> >>>That's exactly what I wrote. But you didn't get the message between the lines: >>>you were not forced to buy the book like I was not forced to answer your post. >>>Clear now? >>> >>>Alessandro >> >>You are being difficult. >> >>He bought the book sight unseen, expecting a treat, and he didn't like it. I >>can understand this reaction. There is not a lot of computer chess literature >>that is dense with really useful stuff. You end up spending three of four times >>what a mass-market hard-back would cost, and when you get it, it has one article >>that you think is really good. >> > >The content of his complain is that Ernst is doing usury: >1. many pages with test results just to "market his thesis" >2. the price is far too high for those 300 pages > >Of course the book was produced to make money. That is how life works. Oh man! > >The price is determined by the market. The market is quite small in this case >since the book is a doctoral thesis on computer chess. It is not the product >itself determining the price. > >Bruce, life is not so simplistic as expected, sometimes. But complaining after >paying doesn't help much here: the book was already _paid_and_consumed_. Complaining after paying for something may convince other people to change their opinion about buying. Uri
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