Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 14:42:21 12/01/97
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On December 01, 1997 at 16:05:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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. Nope. CSTal goes for two reasons: 1. To give Thorsten a holiday by way of recompense for all his efforts each year. 2. For fun. What might stop CSTal going is the blinking outrageous and divisive $1000 fee. Chris Whittington > 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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