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Subject: Re: Gambit Tiger is worth the money by itself.

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 03:11:42 10/18/00

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On October 18, 2000 at 03:53:38, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On October 18, 2000 at 03:17:39, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>> If the strengths of Chess Tiger can be combined with those of Chess Gambit,
>>now, or even within 10 weeks from now, I, although quite poor, would gladly pay
>>$200 for a copy, without any other package.
>>   But that would have to mean that the resulting program would beat the two
>>upcoming Tigers in a match.
>>  Wouldn't others do the same?
>>S.Taylor
>
>Dear Stuart,
>
>As a Beta tester for the Rebel 11 programs, I can say that Gambit Tiger by
>itself is worth $200.00 but I am glad that Ed and his associates have kept the
>price down.  I recommended that they charge a little bit more than the low price
>for all four programs.  I think that Ed knows more about marketing chess
>programs than I do.
>
>This is an awesome chess program package.  There is nothing like it on the
>market.  Unfortunately, Ed Schroder is spoiling us rotten.  Christophe tells me
>that he has only been able to put a small fraction of the total endgame
>knowledge possible into his Tiger programs so far.  There is room for
>improvement and it will come in the next upgrades.
>
>As our processors get faster and eat less power we will soon be able to play
>Gambit Tiger on a device the size of a wallet at 1 Gigahertz with 128 Megs of
>RAM.  I will take my GT Mobile Computer with me everywhere.  Sooner than you
>think , my friend.
>
>
>Tim Frohlick

I can believe that, in many ways, GT alone might be worth $200, but it seems to
be being suggested that there still are weaknesses besides lack of fullest
possible end-game knowledge, and those weaknesses probably do not exist in CT.
 So what I'm speaking of would be worth, in that case, $2000!
S.Taylor



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