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Subject: Re: You guys must be joking!

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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