Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 16:47:54 12/16/00
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You have to remember that one chess program on the market with bells and whistles and a pretty interface is enough and all the mass market could handle. Programs like Fritz, Rebel, Shredder, Etc. Would simply not sell, the chess software market is not a huge one, and as Ed wrote in this thread, Rebel is not a gamers program. You have to realise that you are in a type of chess community here who have interest in the product. When I was at School, even my Family, I think I was the Lone Ranger in giving any interest in chess. Most people will say chess is boring, Yuck, or you are a Brain Dead Nerd. Mass market is owned and dominated by chessmaster, they had the vision and the backing to do it. Any other Program would sell poorly and take huge losses. My local chess store sells more versions of chessmaster than any of the top programs which he also sells, and his Catalogues pushes programs like Fritz and the like more than he ever does Chessmaster, but still Chessmaster outsells them all. You take 100 people off the street who own computers and plays games, ask them about chessmaster and most will know it, Ask them about Fritz and the rest, and they will go who ???? I have a friend who bought Chessmaster 7000, his first chess program. I asked do you know about Fritz, Shredder, Rebel. And he had no idea. Just like when I tell people I post in a forum where I can ask questions to the people who make, Rebel, Shredder, People like Bob and Bruce and many other people with a big names in the computer chess feild, and they could not give two hoots.
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