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Subject: Re: I will not buy Zappa and Sjeng

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 02:33:59 09/07/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 20:04:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 19:44:46, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>Wait a minute !  Is it true that Zappa will only be available in Vincent's GUI
>>???  Does this mean that Vincent will profit from my purchase of Zappa??  If so
>>I have to bow out of the purchase myself as I have sworn in the past to never
>>buy anything from him.
>>Jim
>
>Yes it is correct
>
>Note that GCP talked specifically about Vincent's GUI when you replied to his
>post and said that you will buy Zappa as long as it is not from chessbase.
>
>Here is GCP's post:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?447620
>
>Note that the fact that Vincent will profit from it is a reason not to buy it
>also for me but that reason may not be strong enough in case that zappa is
>strong enough.
>
>I plan to wait and see how zappa perfroms and decide based on it's results if to
>buy it.
>
>Uri

Hello Uri,
I have had enough of Vincent here to never buy anything from him even if it's
the strongest chess program in the world by a margin of more than 200 points.
In that case I do not have any need for the strongest chess program in the
world.  Yes, I'm also fed up with Chessbase and their failure to fix the bugs in
their GUI year after year.  I'm not mad enough at Chessbase to "never" buy
anything they produce but I'm at the point where I will consider very carefully
anything they produce.  There should be some implied warranty with their
products and when problems are reported they should make an attempt to fix the
problems without creating new ones.  It is my opinion that in the past they have
failed in this respect.
Jim



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