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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 6000 at COMPU USA for only $4.99

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:27:06 09/10/00

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On September 10, 2000 at 07:24:17, walter irvin wrote:

>On September 10, 2000 at 02:29:20, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2000 at 17:16:22, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 2000 at 17:03:03, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>I was visiting COMPU USA Superstore and saw CM6000 for just $4.99 and close to
>>>>it I also saw CM7000 for $27.99 which is not as good as CM6000.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard.
>>>
>>>chessmaster 6000 was a great buy its hard to believe that a program so strong
>>>could be so cheap???? 2 other programs come to mind crafty ,lg2000v29a to me
>>>both are super strong and cheap.
>>
>>Chessmaster isn't chess software.  It's computer game software.

>what ever you call it , its great for the computer chess fans that want strong
>software at cheap prices .thats why every body loves crafty ,its strong runs on
>diff platforms even smp and its very cheap .

You should have kept reading.

bruce

>>
>>The previous paragraph has nothing to do with what's in the box, it relates to
>>how it is marketed and sold.  If you go into a computer store, you'll see that
>>new computer game software sells for something around forty to sixty bucks, and
>>if you see it a few months later, it will have dropped in price, and if you see
>>it a year later we're talking ten dollar bin, especially right after the new
>>version has come out.
>>
>>Some computer game software isn't marketed like this, but much of it is.  And
>>apparently the publishers of the Chessmaster series market their stuff like
>>this.
>>
>>Chessmaster is the only computer chess software that is marketed like a real
>>computer game in the U.S.
>>
>>bruce



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