Author: Oliver Y.
Date: 05:40:48 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 08:20:15, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >I was at a number of scholastic tournament over the years with alot of kids >between 8 & 12 years old. In the lobby of the hotel the ones that had notebook >computers all had Chess Master on them. They really liked the colorful (and >this mostly on D' Scann screens), chess boards & game sounds, with music. > >My girlfriend is 28. She doesn't really like chess too much anymore, but >suddenly she is playing Chess Master 6000 everyday. Why is that? "I like the >personalities" You can set them for whatever blitz time control you like, they >start with a preconfigured rating, but then after each game they change, just >like in a real tournament, except that after I lose, I don't have some dumm guy >hitting on me, while offering his 'Great chess wisdom'. I really like the Wendy >personality right now. You should try this Larry, You'll like it". > >You can't argue with the like's/disslike's of little kids & young girls, so I >wouldn't even try. I'm sure Mindscape figured this out in one of their >marketing 101 meetings, said, "Screw it to the advanced chess features, lets >make a product that we can sell to these little kids and young girls, and maybe >we'll throw in a few bones for those dumm-ass chess master's too later on..." > > >Ho, Ho, Ho everybody! >mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! Now if only you can get your girlfriend to advertise to all those women out there, we can get them coming in here!
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