Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:12:01 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 22:47:04, r.c. richards wrote:
>On November 07, 2000 at 14:53:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>So why don't you say that Gambit Tiger is the best program at this time?
>
>I always enjoy reading the claims about new versions of programs by folks who
>haven't seen the programs yet. Has anybody seen Shredder 5 yet who will admit
>it? The highest known version of it that I know of anybody seeing was Marcus
>Kaester who used to have 4.16 before it time bombed out on him, and, for
>whatever reason, he got booted from the beta testing team. (That episode was
>certainly interesting, but I'm glad the moderator moderated it out because I was
>spending too much time trying to figure out what happened.)
>
>To tell you the truth, I'd probably have never considered buying Shredder except
>that Stefan seems to be a pretty controversial character--I'm not sure exactly
>why, but that's basically sold me on the program. I got to have it, especially
>if independent testing says it's 100 points higher than Fritz--nevermind that
>Fritz wipes me up and 100 extra points are ain't necessary.
If you like controversy, what do you think of this one:
"you must be pretty stupid if you really believe that Shredder 5 is 100 elo
points above Fritz6a".
Christophe
>If Marcus Kaster were a programmer, I'd buy his program too, and I'd hope Marcus
>would sell his program for cheaper than the Shredder package, which is too high.
> I don't want or need all that extra crap that goes along with it. In fact, I
>may try to think up some reason not to buy it. Those guys at Millenium must
>have never heard of effective costing, which is just one reason why John Merlino
>has a lot more money in his pocketbook than Stefan does--and why Shredder is the
>world champion, but I'd bet a smaller percentage of folks here own Shredder than
>any other program. John is probably living it up at his beach house while poor
>Stefan works his butt off in some basement.
>
>RC
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