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Subject: Re: Why I rarely visit the CCC

Author: Chris Kantack

Date: 18:15:49 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 01:40:47, Michael Cummings wrote:

>>Casual or new people are not treated any differently. I have been in this forum
>for nearly 4+ years now. And was the chessmaster king in here, defending it from
>the fools who wanted to bag it for being the only mass commercial program on the
>market, capable of beating the rest, while the rest continued to fail to market
>their stuff with any great success, while the king engine just got better and
>the program sold more and more.

This is what I don't understand either.   There is no reason why a program
cannot appeal to both "computer chess geeks" and the general public at large.

Deep Sjeng has a fantastic engine.  Why not marry it to a decent interface and
add the needed features to give the program a wider appeal?   I've yet finish my
response to the author of Deep Sjeng, but my overall question to him is "Why
limit your product to the 0.5% of the chess market?".  In  other words, why not
develop Deep Sjeng into something the whole marketplace would be interested in
buying and using?  Not just those at the CCC?

Chris



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