Author: Albert Silver
Date: 19:48:43 10/17/04
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On October 17, 2004 at 16:33:06, Derek Paquette wrote:
>I was debating with fellow board members about the significance of Bilbao,
>WCCC2004 and other tournaments. So I'm asking you people, so I can see it all
>in one thread, what makes you buy your programs? I'm going to list a few things
>and hopefully you can pick one of them, or just tell me in words.
>
>a) The program wins or comes 2 place in a WCCC or other 'high end' computer
>tournament.
>
>b) The program defeats a grandmaster in a series of games
>
>c) The program has a good past history of always increasing its elo relative to
>SSDF by a significant amount
>
>d) You enjoyed other versions of the program and can only hope that future
>versions are just as enjoyable
>
>e) You talked to the programmer or tester of the program and can only hope that
>his or her boasting turns out to be true.
>
>f) A popular person in this 'community' recommends it.
>
>g) Its distributer/sponsor/owner
>
>h) Its price.
>
>if i missed one, let me know!
>
>so what makes you buy a program?
The answer is easy:
i) a rare incurable disease known as 'compulsive chess program buying'. Rare
outside of the CC community of course.
Albert
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