Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:56:59 09/07/05
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On September 07, 2005 at 05:33:37, Madhavan wrote: >On September 07, 2005 at 05:17:38, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 07, 2005 at 02:15:41, Gabor Szots 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 >>> >>>Did Vincent commit a crime to deserve punishment? And if it turns out he has >>>contributed to Fritz 9 will you not by ChessBase product any more? >>> >>>Gábor >> >>It seems that James Walker will also not buy Fritz9 because it is from >>chessbase. >> >>He did not say it directly but you can see that he wrote that if zappa is from >>chessbase he is not going to buy it. > >Who cares about 1 customer? >Let alone be involved,is beyond me. > >>Vincent has the right to post nonsense against other people but people also have >>the right not to buy from him. > >If Vincent says "Chess engine should be released as stand alone,It should not >support UCI,otherwise there would be no potential customers" > >Is it a nonsense.You just can't say statements from him were nonsense,people >would claim that the above statement regarding GUI and UCI a nonsense" > >But it makes sense when it comes to popularity and sales. >>Uri The nonsense that he said is not about UCI I will give you an example to nonsense that he said few years ago against Crafty when he said that it is weaker than the weakest participant in WCCC and has rating of 1800 see http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=339236 There are clearly worse things that he said in the past. Uri
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