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Subject: Re: Commercial entrants to future CCT's

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:13:59 02/24/05

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On February 24, 2005 at 09:19:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 24, 2005 at 09:13:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 2005 at 09:05:27, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I do not see a reason that not participating with a version that may have bugs
>>>will make the engine better than the amateurs.
>>
>>Because an engine with bugs is almost always weaker than one without?
>
>Yes but you do not decide which engine is stronger based on tournaments.
>It is better to use test of public versions like the ssdf list.
>
>Customers do not care about the value of some books that are used in tournaments
>when they do not get the books.

You are completely wrong. Winning tournaments does bring customers, even if it
is done with hardware and books the customers will never have.

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GCP



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