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Subject: Re: Vasik could have waited...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:42:40 12/11/05

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On December 11, 2005 at 04:52:30, Gregory Owett wrote:

>...until another program is better, then it could have marketed its improved
>engine.  People would have bought it more easily.

If he wait then there is a risk that fruit3 may be significantly stronger than
rybka and not lot of people are going to buy rybka.

>
>Currently, one wonders why buy another Rybka, whereas this version is already
>the best engine.

the reason is simple.
buyers of the commercial version are probably going to get an update that
improves the playing strength and the commercial version also suppotts some
functions that the beta version does not support(for example multi-pv)

Uri



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