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Subject: Re: More doubts with gandalf

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 10:41:26 02/24/01

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On February 24, 2001 at 13:09:17, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Which context? What is the special nature of a commercial chess program compared
>with a shoe, being both commercial products? No matter the different uses, they
>share a neccesary purpose: to please the customer in the context of normal usage
>according time and place. That is the only context relevant here.

The context is supply and demand. If there is a substantial demand then it's
possible (economically sound) to adjust a product range to a specific consumer
profile. That is rarely the case with chess software, which has a tendency to
expand in features (target groups) instead.

But to return to the Gandalf question. What is the information that you're
lacking? The idea that better hardware increases performance is hardly new.

Mogens.



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