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Subject: Re: Ruffian better than Shredder 7.04??

Author: José Carlos

Date: 23:41:13 01/21/04

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On January 22, 2004 at 02:27:00, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On January 21, 2004 at 06:25:27, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2004 at 05:12:19, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On January 21, 2004 at 04:27:20, José Carlos wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi Jose,
>>>
>>>>  You forgot you get money for Ruffian?
>>>>  Read again, Frank. I'll quote for you:
>>>
>>>Interesting for me is more:
>>>Plough back profits for new developments of computer chess.
>>>
>>>Believe me, I live not from computer chess and will not live from it.
>>>I am happy that I have an interesting professional job!
>>>
>>>Ruffian is a great project for our Arena team, absolutly !!
>>>The reason is easy ...
>>>
>>>01. Ruffian is a partner program of Arena!
>>>
>>>02. More people install Arena and have fun with the Freeware GUI Arena!
>>>
>>>03. More people give us material for develops Arena!
>>>A little team must search the best way and I am sure we have found a good way!
>>>
>>>04. We have a strong engine for make a better Arena publicity (Ruffian).
>>>
>>>05. Much persons have only interest on the strongest programs and install Arena
>>>with Ruffian ... find the way to Arena Chess GUI ... in German we say
>>>(Kausalkette).
>>>
>>>You know that my heart beats for freeware developments since many years and I
>>>know too that professional engines are important for the market. Interesting is
>>>to make a little bit for all groups of persons and the way we go have more
>>>success. To see only the own things is wrong! To see what other make is
>>>interesting too and for me private more interesting :-)
>>>
>>>With other words:
>>>Per-Ola powered with his great engine Ruffian the developments of Arena. Rudolf
>>>Huber make this, the partner programmers make this and the webpage is very very
>>>popular. Is the webpage popular are the partner programs popular, are the
>>>freeware engines popular (all links are on Arena webpages) and amateur computer
>>>chess have more success. It's the same way compare to the success to Frank's
>>>Chess Page. I wrote and helps Gambit-Soft, ChessBase make a test for Chessmaster
>>>GUI, Chess-Assistant GUI wrote reviews for a lot of products but main topic is
>>>amateur chess. More and more people have interest and more and more people like
>>>the webpage ... and it was one of the biggest chess webpages with 20.000 hits
>>>daily or on all 250 different HTML pages with 2000 different users per day ... a
>>>work by a big group of persons which help me. I start my publicity for WinBoard
>>>in a time where three WB engines are available. I believe GnuChess, Crafty, The
>>>Crazy Bishop. Since this time I playing tournaments with WB Engines and try what
>>>I can make to make the idea more public.
>>>
>>>Now I make the same for Arena Chess GUI and from month to month the GUI is more
>>>popular. More and more persons helps with bug messages, new ideas and so on.
>>>
>>>Furthermore, we have some interesting engines and Ruffian, Gandalf or other
>>>things which I make publicity for it on my popular webpages is not important for
>>>me alone. It's "only" an important part of my complete interest.
>>>
>>>At the moment I play an interesting tournaments with TheBaron, Comet, TCBishop,
>>>Cerebro, Matador and Terra and I have a lot of fun. You can see, Ruffian,
>>>Shredder, Hiarcs or others are not alone important for myself.
>>>
>>>Maybe this have not to do with professional work but I am happy that I have this
>>>interest and have not alone professional interest. I am sure I have no fun with
>>>professional interest too because I don't like the way which some commercial
>>>firms go.
>>>
>>>For me is important:
>>>Users must be have fun with my work and then I am happy ...
>>>
>>>And in this case :-))
>>>Deep Sjeng is playing an interesting Arena 006 tournament and I like this engine
>>>too. Information about Ruffian ... you can find enough in my forum, here on the
>>>CD and in other fora.
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>it is better than previous available version is not a professional behaviour.
>>>>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>>  Do you think that being professional is only about getting money. You're
>>>>wrong. Being professional is about being resposible and behave with ethics.
>>>>Freeware authors can release crap and more crap if they want. That's not an
>>>>excuse for you, as you ask for money. Get the difference?
>>>>
>>>>  José C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Best
>>>>>Frank
>>
>>  I don't have anything bad to comment on what you say here.
>>  But you change topic suddenly. The former topic: responsability of a
>>professional regarding versions release. You made a comparison with freeware
>>engines. That comparision was wrong and I showed why.
>>  BTW, I deeply admire Per-ola as much as other high quality software
>>developers. But if you sell, you have dues apart from software development.
>>Don't forget them.
>>
>>  José C.
>
>Hi Jose,
>
>sorry, but I have a completly other opinion and cann't following your words.
>
>Best
>Frank

  I know your opinion: pick the money and disappear for a while.

  José C.



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