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Subject: Re: Chessbase sinks even deeper

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 12:57:22 09/10/01

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On September 10, 2001 at 07:16:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 10, 2001 at 06:45:24, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2001 at 04:28:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On September 10, 2001 at 04:23:48, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 09, 2001 at 14:23:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 09, 2001 at 13:17:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>They won the most important competition time after time (the ssdf list) and
>>>>>>other programs could top the list only for a short time.
>>>>>
>>>>>The most important competition is the championship.
>>>>>
>>>>>The SSDF list is a closed highly controversial closed group
>>>>>where not all programs participate. IMHO it's meaningless.
>>>>
>>>>I agree.  It's a shame all that computing power going to make a list that I
>>>>think most people don't look at.  I cannot tell you when the last time I looked
>>>>at it was.
>>>
>>>I think that most of the people do not look at the championship results or do
>>>not consider them as important and the proof is that Fritz is more popular than
>>>Shredder.
>>>
>>
>>That has to do with publicity and marketing, not with results (either in
>>championships or in the SSDF). At any rate Chessmaster is more popular than
>>Fritz.
>>José.
>
>I believe that it is not the case for the best chess players and Fritz is the
>most popular program for the good chess players.

Good chess players are not immune to publicity and marketing.

Regards,
Miguel

>
>Uri



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