Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:13:51 09/04/05
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On September 04, 2005 at 05:29:35, David Mitchell wrote: >On September 04, 2005 at 02:33:04, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 04, 2005 at 01:32:23, David Mitchell wrote: >> >>>On September 03, 2005 at 07:20:21, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On September 03, 2005 at 06:45:14, David Mitchell wrote: >>>> >>>><snipped> >>>>>Money isn't the issue, I believe, in Zappa competing or not competing in a >>>>>tournament, right now. Time is. >>>> >>>>Sending Zappa to Leo is only few minutes so certainly time is not the problem >>>>here. >>> >>>But Zappa isn't finished, so any testing would be bogus, and suspect if any >>>changes were made after Leo started testing. >> >>I still do not see the problem. >>If released zappa will be better than the tested version then nobody will >>complain about it. >> >>Fruit also may be released as commercial program in the future but it does not >>prevent fabien to ask Leo to test private version. >> >>Uri >As WCCC champion (and by a large margin), Zappa has to be released NOW - ASAP, >for commercial marketing advantages. The "pump" in marketing, is already primed. >Leo can not help Zappa whatsoever. Quite the opposite, he would be a possible >risk and liability for Zappa's commercial release and success. Leo cannot help zappa is wrong. Readers of this forum may decide not to buy zappa because zappa2 does not participate in WBEC. I decided to wait to see results of Zappa in tournaments similiar to WBEC before deciding if to buy it and it may be a loss of one customer for AC relative to the case that zappa2 participates in WBEC. > >AC will NOT want to have Leo review Zappa for that reason. Clear as day. > >Fruit is in a different situation. Fruit did well but not THAT well. Fabien may >want to work on his GUI, book, and engine between now and Padderborn (or >whatever tournament he wants to launch Fruit from, and THEN release Fruit, after >a successful tournment, there. Releasing immediately after Zappa, when Zappa was >the WCCC champ (and Fruit did not come in even 2nd) This is clearly wrong Fruit came second place with impressive result of 8.5/11 when Zappa got 10.5/11 Considering the fact that I have not 4 processors at home and I do not plan to buy them results of WBEC are more important for me then results of WCCC and the fact that zappa2 does not participate in the most important tournament from my point of view does not encourage me to buy it. Note that WBEC is also more important than WCCC also because it has more games. Uri
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