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Subject: Re: Thanks to All of you

Author: allan johnson

Date: 21:43:58 03/06/01

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On March 06, 2001 at 18:58:28, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Thanks to all of you for the info. And yeah right, maybe this beast is not
>worthy the price. Double the normal price-tag for maybe a 1% of better
>perfomance would be a poem to irrational purchase, but...who said we are
>rational people? I wonder if there is just one guy here that has not purchased
>something because his mind said to him it was not neccesary. If such a thing
>happened, the entire professional chess computer industry would fall in flames.
>Salutes to all hands...
>Fernando.

Ah Fernando you certainly seem to have your finger right on the pulse when
it comes to the human psyche.There has been many an occasion when I have spent
far yoo much on a chess programme than I needed to.As you say human beings don't
always behave rationally.And don't manufacturers ansd sales people know it.
cheers al



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