Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 21:01:51 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 22:52:04, Albert Silver wrote: >Winboard is amateur and not commercial. Most of the above exist in the top >current programs, but you know that, having criticized the Fritz interface for >example. Commercial programs have less severe problems but they are problems none the less. I chose Winboard here because so many people praised its interface. >You really believe that Fritz 6's interface is so bad, that it hampers sales? >That the interface of Shredder 4 (and therefore Zarkov 5, Genius 6.5 and Wchess >2000) is so convioluted in its handling that users will knock somewhere else? >These are a few of the commercial representatives after all. You really believe that Fritz 6's interface is so good, that improvement wouldn't help sales? Chess programs need such a simple interface compared to other types of programs, it's quite impossible to make the interface too convoluted. >Lose the contract? I thought you said you had just finished it. I presumed that >to mean that the program was on the market and not dependent on your anonymity >in its participation. > > Albert Silver I finished _programming and testing_. In the commercial world that's not the same as having program appear on the market. And even if it was on the market I still couldn't discuss specifics.
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