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Subject: Re: Which engines will you wait for, and which will you preorder!??!

Author: Mike S.

Date: 03:37:59 09/16/04

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On September 15, 2004 at 21:02:00, Derek Paquette wrote:

>How about everyone else? Basically the question is, who do you trust, and who
>don't you trust, when it really comes down to it.

I don't pre-order anything... often I've waited for the *first patch* to appear
before I bought! Recommendable for progs which are known for usually being
patched soon after release. Why do much test work with a version which will be
quickly superseeded by the patched one?

Strange idea btw. to wait for SSDF results before buying :-) this would mean a
delay of many month... I don't consider this.

Basically, I wait for Fritz 9, and maybe Junior 9.

For those, one doesn't have to wait for ratings to appear IMO. But there were
bugs/patch issues in the past with these two though. IIRC stalemate bugs were
discovered for J7 (or J8?) but never patches. So I'm not sure yet about Junior 9
yet, but Fritz 9 will be a must-have for me as I have skipped F8 (blush :-)).

The new Fritz *GUI* version will be interesting too!

Regards,
Mike Scheidl



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