Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:48:30 07/25/05
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On July 25, 2005 at 03:34:58, Andre van Ark wrote: >Hi! > >You guys must be joking. > >It might be a good idea if the both of you try to help a chessprogrammer for a >week by doing some serious beta-testing so that you are able to look in the >kitchen and learn something about chessprogramming. > >You will see than that they work their ar$$es off instead of "tweak the earlier >version slightly". > >The fact is that the programs nowadays so strong that it is very, very, very, >hard to make some improvements. > >The same thing was visible when the Mephisto Vancouver came out: some new >features, but not (much) stronger as its predecessor (Lyon?), allthough Richard >Lang and Ossi Weiner worked very hard on it. > >$50 is indeed a "give away" if you count all the manhours of work! I am quiet >sure the both of you rember the the update prices for the good old Mephisto >modules ;) And you bought it, didn't you? It's obviously a gag post.
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