Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:43:18 06/25/03
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On June 25, 2003 at 16:22:55, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On June 25, 2003 at 13:40:16, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>i have written to my local lexus, BMW and mercedes dealers to send me an LS 430; >>740i and S500 respectively so that i can do a comparison test for the lifetime >>of these vehicles and post the daily comparisons on the internet just as a >>service to the consumers! >> >>I cant imagine why, but none of them have agreed! > >Yes, what a bad companies they are. Like Chessbase. >It doesn't give us their engines for free! > >Dear Dimitris, your thoughts are unacceptable.Why on earth, someone that >worked hard for something give it to you for free? OK, some people is doing >this by releasing freeware programs. But if all programs were freeware >then you can imagine what would happen. And specifically for chess, if >someone loves computer chess and wants this continue improving, then >taking engines for free or stealing them from kazaa etc... is absolutelly >stupid. Someone who is not paying for the engines and taking them from >illegal places, it's not clever, it's idiot. Because this way, computer >chess development will slow down or even stop. >Although i find really annoying the fact that we have to pay 200 Euro for >Shredder 7 + Fritz 8 + C-Tiger 15.0 + Junior 8 to get 4 CD's which >contain 99.99% the same thing, as only engine files change. do you say that the engines are only 0.01%? I think that the engine is the main reason to buy chess software. I prefer not to have new interface with every new engine. Uri
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