Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 15:39:54 09/09/05
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On September 09, 2005 at 17:37:19, Mig Greengard wrote: >Instead of being snide and proving my point about pointless and unfounded >bashing, perhaps you could explain exactly what ChessBase, a for-profit company, >has to gain by continuing to invest resources in winning 11-round tournaments >against other programs. Why is it bullshit for a company to move into something >more profitable, like interface design and making an engine that is a more >useful training tool for amateurs? What would they have gained had Fritz 9 >entered and won with a Fischerian score of 11/11? They would put a nice story >bragging about it up on their site, put "2005 world champion!" on the box, and >sold three more copies than they otherwise would have. > They obviously believe that "2005 World Champion" is a powerful marketing tool. How else to explain their refusal to write a single article about the event? Their sudden lack of interest in comp-comp events is pretty amusing. Funny how they thought these events were important back when Fritz was sitting atop the SSDF rating list. -Peter
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