Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:40:37 09/13/05
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On September 13, 2005 at 05:26:04, Amir Ban wrote: >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 I am not sure if playing strength is the most important thing for the professionals. I think that they may prefer a program that is better in teaching them to play better and part of it is tactics and part of it is teaching them to have a better evaluation. I think that if the evaluation of chess programs is good enough then translating the evaluation of chess programs to human language may be productive in teaching humans to have better evaluation. Exercises for humans by giving them positions and asking them to evaluate them can also be productive in achieving that target. Uri
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