Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 14:16:29 09/15/00
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On September 14, 2000 at 12:51:50, James T. Walker wrote: >At the risk of being on the wrong side of programmers, I have to agree with >Enrique. I think programmers, especially commercial programmers put a lot of >emphasis on the World Championship because of the extra sales it might bring. Extra sales, I'd say 500-700 copies, it brings in the market of computer chess fans. I doubt that it helps much on real-world shelves. More likely it is a bad handicap. In the real world you have the granny who buys a present for her grandchild. What's she going to take? The merciless Worldchampion who will shred her little boy to pieces? Or will she buy ChessMaster instead? She is going to buy ChessMaster. And ChessMaster sells 100.000 copies per version.
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