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Subject: Re: appease the customers for what ?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 08:28:10 06/18/03

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On June 18, 2003 at 05:09:17, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Mr Smith,
>
>but not to understand me wrong: I am quite sure that nobody in this club want to
>go to court with chessbase... (So if you are really the hired lawyer of
>chessbase there is no chance for a big salary :) In fact we all love ChessBase -
>for some of us it might be hate and love combined - anyway, love is there, we
>all love our hobby. Most of us buy as many ChessBase products as their income
>allows. Look what Terry wrote in his mail to ChessBase:
>
>"Although I'm somewhat disappointed, Junior 8 was worth the
>purchase and you and Amir provided a much needed patch quickly, thanks.
>
>However, will you and Amir Ban compensate this error by providing these other
>engines, YY and XZ single processor versions for Junior 8 via your site?"
>
>and I believe this are the feelings of most of us. The only thing that we want
>is a fair and honest partner: ChessBase... so it's up to them to apologize and
>to rethink about the error they made - maybe they can show some good will. You
>know, nobody here wants to force ChessBase to give anything away for free or
>whatever - but for the customers it would be a nice gesture to give "something"
>away... sometimes even a nice eMail is enough...
>
>That's how simple it is...
>
>Greets, Thomas

My guess is that it would only mean changing one line of code to turn Deep
Junior 8 ZX into a single processor version. Or, if it's coded well, just one
constant has to be changed (changing the maximum valid number of processors from
8 to 1).



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