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Subject: Re: I think ChessBase products fail!

Author: Eran

Date: 21:10:17 12/25/01

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On December 25, 2001 at 18:59:18, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>On December 25, 2001 at 18:03:16, Eran wrote:
>
>>Hi CCC members,
>>
>>I think all new ChessBase products fail this year. The ChessBase products has
>>bugs and the service is bad. Moreover, perhaps ChessBase company has a lot of
>>problems that the staff is afraid to reveal to public, lest ChessBase name will
>>become bad. In addition, I think not only the products but also the ChessBase
>>company is bad! ChessBase compaby may need to get restructured entirely now!
>>
>>Eran
>
>you are talking total rubbish. chessbase products while certainly not perfect,
>are quite good. most of the releases this year (shredder 5.32, junior 7 and deep
>junior, shredder6 and above all the 2 tigers  have had an uneventful release to
>very good reviews, and i have n't heard of too many bugs either. fritz7 has a
>few problems but the producers are trying threir best to solve that in the form
>of regular patches. their service in fact is excellent and i've always had a
>response usually from Herr Freidel himself within a day or so of emailing them.
>
>i think you are un necessarily trying to stir up spam
>
>rajen

I do not agree with you entirely. Since I was a customer who bought older
ChessBase products such as Fritz6 and ChessBase 7 in the past, I therefore have
the right to express my opinions about them. Besides, I hope to pass my word to
ChessBase company soon, so that the ChessBase staff will provide a better and
fair service to us.

In addition, I bought ChessBase 8 last year. I was disappointed because
ChessBase 8 crashed more often that ChessBase 7. Although ChessBase provided
several patches for ChessBase 8, most of its bugs were still never fixed.

After I sent several e-mail messages about my complaints to ChessBase, ChessBase
never replied to me. The ChessBase staff treats me as an unimportant customer
and it is not right. They should remember I paid a lot of money to ChessBase
before and they should not eschew me. They should respect their customers like
me and treat them as they are most important customers to them.

The ChessBase should communicate openly with the customers and answers their
complaints effectively. They have nothing to fear. Also, they should provide
accurate and clear information about patches, because it is important to
customers.

I accept that in fact all software is never perfect. However, since some new
ChessBase products has more bugs and problems than older ones, and what
ChessBase tries to improve the new products is not enough. Therefore, I think
ChessBase is not a good company nowadays. ChessBase needs to improve itself
first before ChessBase can improve the products and services for customers.

The famous saying: "Do not look at the beautiful jar of coffee, just look inside
and check whether coffee is tasty." My point is that ChessBase GUI is very
friendly and complicated, but more problems and bugs inside. Whereas Shredder 5
GUI is less friendly but it is stabler than ChessBase programs.

I am less sure whether to buy any ChessBase products today. If ChessBase still
continues to be that way, then it is their problem. <shrugging>

Eran



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