Steve Maughan wrote:There are two problems with this. Firstly, who decides what is essential, and secondly who pays for it.
France is a democracy.
The point is that access to the Internet has become necessary for leading a "normal" life. Like access to running water, electricity, education and basic healthcare. In the old days people had to do without these things and life was still possible, but I see no problem in calling them "essential".
In the case of internet access, the french state is not paying for anything as far as I'm aware. Why should it.
In the case you stated you're quite happy (...)
You're reading things into my post that are not there.
Tom, you were one of the few people who got a sneek-preview copy of Komodo 8 (we'd temporarily turned on K8 ordering to double check the website was set up correctly).
Do i understand correctly that it is not top place in that test?
Correct, it is quite far from top.
But bear in mind this is a TACTICAL test (i.e. testing the engine's ability to find combinative winning moves) NOT an elo test.
I make no claims about Komodo's strength vs any other engine....except in tactical performance which is useful for analysis.
hm, and in this time I made my order and got it!
And now?
Should I stop testing?
Round Robin is still running ... under www.amateurschach.de
Best
Frank
Hey, you bought it, and you can definitely test it! Now there might be some minor changes in documentation and such for the Friday release, But you should be fine, and can always redownload after Friday if we change anything
hm, and in this time I made my order and got it!
And now?
Should I stop testing?
Round Robin is still running ... under www.amateurschach.de
Best
Frank
I guess it would not be fair to ask you to stop testing, since we can't stop everyone who got it from doing so. Maybe we'll send out the copies for official tests earlier than the release in view of this.