Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 11:30:24 02/17/06
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On February 17, 2006 at 13:13:47, Keith Kitson wrote: >Vaclav appears to be cutting it very fine to release Beta 14 before 1.2 > >I cannot see a great deal of advantgae in releasing a beta two days, or so, >before the final version. There is not enough time to assess the endgame >capabilities and report back to enable corrections before releasing 1.2. > >Perhaps the plan is to stretch the 20th delivery date to encompass time for >aterations and corrections?! > >Does anyone have any more info. > >KK Why on earth are these releases called "beta"? If Vasik have called them 1.02, 1.03 etc, plus have said that everybody who buy 1.02 will get all releases up to 1.20 for free, then there wouldn't be so many guessing about the release dates. If he calls them "beta", then he suggests that they are not final. But they will never be perfect, nor final. Moreover, if they are "beta", what are the other engines (generally much weaker)? Alfa? I think that Crafty's numbering is more appropriate for a chess engine.
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