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Subject: Re: If strength is the only deciding factor, Crafty is not a good choice

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:34:27 11/12/00

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On November 12, 2000 at 22:20:21, pavel wrote:

>On November 12, 2000 at 21:40:12, walter irvin wrote:
> was play a game as either white or black and adjust the levels
>>.no setup position ,no features at all except that it would play chess as white
>>or black and you could change the levels .and it was 150 points stronger than
>>every one else i would buy it even if it cost $500 .people want the strongest
>>beast they can find .
>
>did you buy shredder5 already?
>or are you planning to buy it?
>
>and by the way, if a chess program costs 500$ you can be preety sure that only
>you will buy it ;)
>
>pavs

I think that if it is 150 elo better than others there will be more than one
buyer.

There will be less buyers relative to the case that the price is 50$ but even if
you assume that only 11% of the buyers for 50$ will buy for 500$ the decision to
sell for 500$ is better.

Uri



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