Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 04:47:46 12/07/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 05:25:09, Georg Langrath wrote: >On December 07, 2000 at 05:08:39, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On December 07, 2000 at 04:55:29, Georg Langrath wrote: >> >>>Yes you are right. And I think it depends on that strength of for example Par >>>Excellence is enough for 99.99 % of people. So why bother about making stronger >>>programs? There is no money in that. >>> >>>Georg >> >>I believe that most of the buyers of the top programs do not buy chess programs >>to play against them so there is money ib doing better chess programs. >> >>Uri > >Perhaps you are right. But I myself would sooner by a pc-program for analyze. > >Georg Just yesterday I walked into a local chess store (I live in Berlin), and saw offered 8 or 9 different brands of dedicated units, presented much more prominently than any PC programs. That made me wonder (I had expected the market for dedicated units to have been almost destroyed by the modern PC programs), so I asked, who would buy them, i.e. why they would buy expensive dedicated units instead of cheaper PC programs. The answer was quite simple: those people just don't like to move virtual pieces with a mouse, they much prefer to handle real phyical pieces on a real board. Unfortunately I did not ask, whether those people use their dedicated units more for playing chess (where a super-strong engine is not necessary) or whether they use it more for analysis (where one wants the strongest engine available). Since I didn't ask, I don't know the answer. But there obviously is still a market for dedicated units. Heiner
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