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Subject: Re: I will not buy Zappa and Sjeng

Author: Madhavan

Date: 02:33:37 09/07/05

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On September 07, 2005 at 05:17:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 07, 2005 at 02:15:41, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2005 at 19:44:46, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>Wait a minute !  Is it true that Zappa will only be available in Vincent's GUI
>>>???  Does this mean that Vincent will profit from my purchase of Zappa??  If so
>>>I have to bow out of the purchase myself as I have sworn in the past to never
>>>buy anything from him.
>>>Jim
>>
>>Did Vincent commit a crime to deserve punishment? And if it turns out he has
>>contributed to Fritz 9 will you not by ChessBase product any more?
>>
>>Gábor
>
>It seems that James Walker will also not buy Fritz9 because it is from
>chessbase.
>
>He did not say it directly but you can see that he wrote that if zappa is from
>chessbase he is not going to buy it.

Who cares about 1 customer?
Let alone be involved,is beyond me.

>Vincent has the right to post nonsense against other people but people also have
>the right not to buy from him.

If Vincent says "Chess engine should be released as stand alone,It should not
support UCI,otherwise there would be no potential customers"

Is it a nonsense.You just can't say statements from him were nonsense,people
would claim that the above statement regarding GUI and UCI a nonsense"

But it makes sense when it comes to popularity and sales.
>Uri



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