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Subject: Re: Info from inside

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:14:40 11/14/00

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On November 14, 2000 at 06:52:38, alfred palang wrote:

>Chessmaster don't need to be the strongest program to draw the money. I went to
>Best Buy to buy me one copy, but it was sold out less than 24 hours after it was
>released. That was what the saleswoman told me.If only ChessBase or Rebel
>products can sell this way....:)

Tell you a secret, usually producers produce a small first series.
The idea behind is that despite 50, 100 or 20,000 beta testers the
first cdrom might contain an unacceptable bug. Just economic logic.

Ed



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