Author: gerold daniels
Date: 06:41:38 02/13/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 08:43:34, Derek Paquette wrote: >I know that some of you feel that being beta testers (unofficially) for Rybka is >like being tricked, your doing the work for free. I personally disagree 100%. >Unlike Fritz/junior/shredder who are all top performers in terms of SSDF and >tournaments run by the likes of mike , kurt and others they...once released are >as good as that particular version will ever get. In testing personalities or >programing styles with the program, those programers can only rely on their own >testing and previous versions. I love the fact that the entire community is >essentially pitching in to make a stronger, superior engine. I don't mind >running tests with rybka beta's to see which is stronger, adjusting the >personality and having them wage war. This is, in my opinion the most >successful and smartest way for any author to tweek his program to the max. >What other way can someone recruit or hire in this case a 1,000 beta testers??? >And imagine the quality the end product will have if the author listens and >studies those beta testers results such as Vas does. My hat is off to him, I am >in corporate banking and I've seen a lot of sales and marketing tactics in my >day, this is absolutely fantastic, I hope he does it for the next version, and >the version after that. > >Good luck Vas, keep up the testing and I hope your program continues to increase >in strength!! > >-Derek Paquette Thanks for your excellence post Derek. Gerold.
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