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Subject: Re: Big Test Report Chess Programs for Pocket PC & Palm !

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 13:23:54 09/21/05

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On September 21, 2005 at 09:58:55, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>On September 21, 2005 at 08:43:32, Murat wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi Enrico,
>>Axel did a free service to the handheld chess community. And he did an excellent
>>job.
>>
>>We all know about the strength of hiarcs. But as a 1700 player it means little
>>to me. Further more, you as a person who is working for hiarcs, badgering Axel
>>is very distasteful. Looks bad on the company you are representing.
>>
>>You made your point, now get of his back. You lost me as a potential hiarcs
>>customer and you will lose more of them if you keep attacking Axel.
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Murat :.
>
>I cannot agree with you.
>It is good not to have a review done than to have a factually incorrect one.
>Axel did a tough job considering the number of engines tested , but the
>development team has a right to point out factual errors in the review if they
>think there are some.
>
>The issues raised by Enrico are valid issues - not badgering (and Axel has
>accepted some of them already).
>Errors are errors and even the most well-intentioned tests might have them.
>
>It is in everyones interests that more tests like this get done and also get
>corrected when errors are found.
>
>By the way , considering your response - I think you have never been emotionally
>involved in any project : when you give 80+ hours a week on somthing you believe
>in , then you will understand why Enrico reacted the way he did.

I've tried to keep everything fact-based, logical and valid.  Additionally, I've
tried to stay away from clearly subjective points for obvious reasons.  You are
also correct about the origin of the "hard to remove" emotion that may surface
in some of the responses.

-elc.

>
>Thanks to Axel for doing the tests and for Enrico for paying such attention and
>pointing out the mistakes !
>- Mridul



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