Author: Albert Silver
Date: 21:20:06 02/11/00
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On February 12, 2000 at 00:01:51, Vincent Vega wrote:
>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?
I wouldn't go that far, but the issue was rather the inverse. Of course it has
room for improvement (as do all) but your complaint leaned more towards: they
are so bad that it is a miracle they sell at all.
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.
>>
>
>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.
The point wasn't in having you discuss the specifics of your program but your
strong criticism of the work of other programmers (most of whom are members of
this forum) under the name of a movie personage and references to important
secret projects. What exactly do you think is going to happen if you come
forward and say who you are?
Albert Silver
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