Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 12:40:23 06/11/00
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On June 11, 2000 at 15:21:30, Albert Silver wrote: >On June 11, 2000 at 14:59:56, Hans Gerber wrote: > >>On June 11, 2000 at 14:07:22, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >> >>>On June 11, 2000 at 07:41:29, Bert Seifriz wrote: >>> >>>>When Chessmaster 7000 is released it costs 50 dollars. At the same time >>>>Chessmaster 6000 will cost 20 dollars, Chessmaster 5000 maybe 5 dollars, >>>>and Chessmaster 4000 will cost 50 cents. ChessMaster 3000 and 2000 are >>>>free then! This is the way it worked and works. >>>>So when you go to a grocery like Lidl and you find a Millennium Chess this or a >>>>Jubilee Chess that for 5 bucks you can be sure that you do neither get the >>>>latest version nor the full menu of the latest version. Instead the CD might >>>>contain other older programs and some advertising! >>> >>>>There is nothing like a free lunch! >>> >>>You are right. >>> >>>Stefan >> >>Ok. Now I know. Thank you for the confirmation. >> >>There is just one problem! It is right that it is Millenium. But the name of >>S.M.K. is very well on the back of the CD or somewhere very small and hidden. >> >>In combination with the announcement that it is the World Champion (!) I want to >>state that M.K. is as responsible as Millenium. >> >>'The winner program of Paderborn' it is announced. >> >>In Paderborn it was not the version SHREDDER 3, but a newer one, probably >>version number 4. That World Champion version is sold for 7 US$ right now. > >Not necessarily. If I buy a recent version of Fritz and it states that it was >World Microcomputer Champion in 1995, that doesn't necessarily mean that the >engine in it is the one that won that World Championship. > > Albert Silver Not necessarily? Ok then. Let me tell you what the cover is telling you. 1. Karpov: "A great program and justified Computer World Champion!" 2. Headline: "World Champion The Computer World Champion of all classes" 3. Stamped on the front in red: "Very good. Testresult in Computerschach+Spiele in Febuary 2000" 4. Further on the front cover: "Thze talking program comments your game with the original voice of Anatoly Karpov" 5. Gold Medal on the front cover repeating "Computer Chess World Champion 1999" 6. Now the back cover: "The program of the young Stefan Meyer-Kahlen from Dortmund triumphed in June 1999 on a usual Pentium PC against the whole multiprocessors and Big Machines and became unbeaten Computerchess World Champion of all classes." 7. As example of the list of features: "Beginner, Blitz and Tournament levels, Solutions for Mate problems. For beginners and experts, up until Grandmaster." Do you still think that this should indicate that it is a very old, almost antic program that already has been updated many times since the time of its origin success? Hans Gerber >> >>So, my question is still open. Is that the indication for a successful program >>or the selling out of a not so ... program? >> >>Final question to Mr. Seifriz: how do you call that if there is no version >>number 5 out yet and the implication has been made that it is the actually >>strongest program (of S. M. K.)? More so if Anatoly Karpov is telling you that >>on the front cover... >> >> >>Hans Gerber
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