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Subject: Re: Transalations

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 02:26:04 09/13/05

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On September 12, 2005 at 19:15:05, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Not a very satisfying answer. You did exactly what I forecasted: just to mention
>Chessmaster. Not very original. It is done once and again for the
>"professionallly minded" poster here. It seems with that they believe all is
>done and said.
>What's more, I doubt you even read the full post because clearly you did not
>consider none of my arguments there.
>Even when you does not agree in nothing with the argumentation of other guy,
>even when you believe you are the absolute owner of truth, even so some
>politeness oblige to do someting better than that kind of reply.
>I feel I am entittled to something better than just a derogatory comment in
>three  words.
>
>Fernando

I was not derogatory but simply the direct answer to what you asked, but I will
elaborate:

There is the mass market, served mainly by Chessmaster, and there is the
professionals and enthusiasts market, which is served mainly by Chessbase. They
are different in needs, required features, required strength, graphics levels,
and last but not least, budget, i.e. price.

It's not easy to serve both markets at once, and it makes more sense to
concentrate on one and do a good job. As long as Chessbase try to sell to the
professionals and enthusiasts, they had better do this right, and let people who
don't have 50 Euro for a chess product and who don't care about what they're
offering go somewhere else.

Amir



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