Author: Peter Berger
Date: 06:36:07 04/05/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 22:23:32, John Merlino wrote: > >The Game Room IS the "power user room", because you can do anything you want >there: create and analyze with any personality, set up any position, look up >database statistics, etc.). Chessmaster 8000's main design intention was to give >the power user (once again, a very small portion of the people who buy the >product) more of what he/she wanted, without making it too difficult or >intimidating to our typical user (who, in many cases, is only barely computer >literate). > >Chessmaster is unique among all of the programs mentioned on this board in that >it has a completely different audience than Fritz, Rebel, Tiger, etc., and this >drives much of the design/implementation decisions for the game. And, once >again, the old axiom of "never do anybody half a favor" is starting to ring >true.... ;-) > >jm Well , I think it is wrong to assume this effort isn't appreciated . You recently participated in the Moderator votes ; did you realize the big total number of members who voted ? As the question of moderation probably doesn't interest too many anyway it is safe to assume twice as much people regularly have a look at this board . There is a group of people dissatisfied with the Chessmaster8000 product and they post their opinion here . It seems to be about 10 people . I guess the rest either doesn't own the product , doesn't care for the discussion or is simply satisfied . Which one you choose is a matter of philosophy ... ;-) pete PS : Btw : I don't understand why everybody seems to think a nice,entertaining GUI isn't interesting for the "power user" ( whatever this is supposed to be ) . I probably belong in this category , too , but I watch the whole movie _every_ time I start CM :-) .
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