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Subject: Re: No money in making stronger programs

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 05:33:33 12/07/00

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Hi.
There some reasons, I believe, to keep dedicated units with some market.
First: you maybe want to give to your son a chess machine enough interesting and
pretty to enthrall him and, at the same time, a lot cheaper than buying a PC and
then a program. Besides, you avoid the kid at your side asking the computer
where you are writting or playing or whatever.
Second: If you want to give that kind of gift to someone else, the same argument
apply: a decicated unit of, say, 100 bucks, is lot less that the combo
PC+Program.
Third: there is a charm in the object in itself than even matured players and
amateurs and chess computer fans like us cannot avoid if we have a drop of blood
in the system. There is an special magic in getting off the drawer the machine
and prepare your self to play a real thing. In comparison, just to load a
program in the PC is lot less interesting.
I myself, owner of maybe 60 or 70 commercial program, I would not doubt a second
to get a new machine if price and beauty and strenght are OK.
Fernando



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