Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 15:53:25 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 01:14:38, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 29, 1999 at 00:24:33, ROBERT FLINT wrote: > >>i find it strange that shep among other have chess tiger probably for free when >>paying customer like myself can;t even get a beta copy. please dont suggest >>chess tiger light as it is strength i am after and it lacks that!! thank you:> > >The answer is simple: > >There was a time my program was completely unknown, and a few people kindly >asked me by email if they could have a version to test it. > >At that time I was very happy to have results on long time controls against the >top commercial programs (I never play long time controls games, and I did not >have these commercial programs). > >These testers had to spend HOURS OF MANUAL TESTING in front of an ugly text mode >program, because Tiger did not support the Auto232 automatic playing system. Do >you realize what it means? > >I have to say a million thanks to all of these testers. They are (if I forget >someone, please let me know!): >* Thorsten Czub >* Shep (Kai Lübke) >* Didzis Cirulis >* Torsten Schoop >* Enrique Irazoqui >* Fernando Villegas Darrouy I suspected Fernando had a longer name. It is very uncommon for a Spanish speaking person to have such a short name as "Fernando Villegas". I even know some foreigners who come to Mexico and are practically forced by society to get longer names than they had before (: I sometimes feel strange, it seems that I am the only one here with a long name! José. >* Fabrice Jaouen >* Ernest Bonnem >* Marcus Kästner >* Raphael Vasquez >* Paul Petersson > >Additionnaly, in 1997 Frédéric Louguet played several matches against his >program Chess Wizard (and at that time Wizard was the best!). > >The names of all these people are written in my source code! No joke. > > >Please be patient Robert. You will be able to buy the REBEL-TIGER very soon. > > > > Christophe
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