Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:05:12 12/01/97
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With respect to commercial programs that does not participate, I suppose I am not discovering powder if I say that the simple reason is they have too much to lose if they do. Once a program gets his tittle, then usually marketing people uses it for ever as a publicity claim, but of course it would be impossiblke and funny if you do so after being defeated for the first or second place. On the contrary, non commercial or badly known commercial can risk because there is little or nothing at stake. In some cases, commercial products do take risk, but there are special reasons. The case of Chris and his CSTal by example: Chris was out of competition since long time ago and so even a middle position in Paris could be good for him. And for Cristophe Theron there were good reasons also to be there because his Tiger is still not very known. And so and so. Only Fritz 5 does not seems to fit in any of these categories. Or they were absolutely sure theye were to get a very good result or something else. Maybe, on the contrary, Chessbase has sold already so many units that commercial succes was ensured and so they risked nothing and even if ood result was got, they could sell another extra amount. Who knows? Misteries of this special market... What do you think and or know about this, Bert?
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