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Subject: Re: Are we spoiled or what?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:22:48 12/16/00

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On December 16, 2000 at 15:11:42, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>I am looking at a old Inside Chess ed. Oct.3,1994 that has "Kasparov KO'd by
>Computer" on the cover.  Turning to page 3 I see an advertisement for
>ChessAssistant 1.32. For the Unannoted Game Collection yrs. 1541 to
>1993(325,000+ games) on floppy disks they are asking $1000.00 US.  For each
>yearly subscription of 72,000 additional games you pay only $150.00 US.
>
>Anybody interested?  Gee, I get 800,000 games on the Rebel 11 CD and five chess
>programs for only $54.00 and s+h .  Are we spoiled or what?
>
>Tim "Good things come to those who wait" Frohlick

Spoiled?  Insane might be a better word  If you ask me it would be virtually
imposible to justify spemding that kind of money.

Here's a link to the Pitt Chess archives where you can get the games for free
http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/index2.html and if any selection of games
just doesn't happen to be there, then tough.

Pete



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