Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 16:24:47 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 14:36:34, Harald Faber wrote: >On January 18, 2001 at 06:18:37, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: > >>On January 18, 2001 at 06:04:05, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>It is likely that it will hurt Rebels creditability, not the SSDF's. Consider >>>that. It might have been better to forbid publishing results gained by playing >>>auto232-games with Century 3. I would have done so. >> >> >>Before we started autoplaying Century 3, Ed expected C3 to come fifth ind the >>SSDF list. Well it did not, but it only miss it by 29 point, so IMO C3 is not >>doing that bad. > >Not that bad, right. But bad enough and worse than the real strength. >Think of all the guys who look at the list at the top-3. Oops, no Century in >sight. Far away, so not worth any further look. I cannot say how much this hurts >Rebels reputation and sales, but it definitely does. Remember all the other >programs that performed worse in their predecessor version, like MChessPro. A >pity. Of course a bad rating on SSDF is a reason for loss of sales among experienced comp lovers. But I bet that 70-80% of people who buy Rebel don't even know about the SSDF list. SSDF is just one of the available advertising tools. Of course here in CCC, SSDF is a hot item. Ed
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