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Subject: Re: I will not buy Zappa and Sjeng

Author: Madhavan

Date: 03:22:16 09/07/05

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On September 07, 2005 at 05:56:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.

http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=339044

Whoah!

Maybe He was being childish.He was kidding with others and sarcastically putting
Bob down.

I assume he was not serious when he spoke like that.He said that for fun,he was
poking fun around Bob.

>Uri



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