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Subject: Re: which 6 man tablebases are the most important?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:07:42 04/06/04

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>>Editing one line in the winboard ini-file is not rocket science, not even for
>>techno-phobes I think.
>
>It's just something 99.9% of the customers is not capable of doing.

You're just making up numbers, the number is distorted because you never hear
complaints from those who succeed.

>First of all they have *no clue* that they must modify it.

It is possible they have no clue, but then they won't have much use for a chess
engine either. It goes hand in hand at some level.

>>Arena can scan your harddrive for available engines, so all you have to do is
>>download them and unzip them.
>
>You still must find that button to do it and know it has that capability or it
>won't succeed.

Of course, and if they can't they have much bigger problems anyway, like how to
find the "power on" switch :)

Seriously.
You are expecting programmers to design software for users
*) who are scared of techno,
*) who can't install from a CD,
*) who doesn't know what a file is,
*) who can't browse a menu and
*) who can't push buttons.

Good luck writing software to these people, I give up on those.

Luckly, I think we are dealing with a minory among the computer chess interested
folks!

-S.



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