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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