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Subject: Re: Who fixed the original settings of CM8000 ?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 23:08:17 04/04/01

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On April 04, 2001 at 22:23:32, John Merlino wrote:

>I'm not offended by your post, and I hope you're not offended by my reply. The
>King's settings are believed to be the best for all time controls and all
>hardware configurations (as I mentioned in detail in the post that is a few
>"above" this one). We have to think of our typical user, and design the product
>for that person, rather than the computer chess enthusiast (which is a VERY
>SMALL portion of the people who buy Chessmaster) who wants the strongest
>possible engine out of the box.
>jm

In my opinion your policy is wrong. You should indeed design your product for
the computer chess enthusiast and not for the typical user. You may be sure that
the latter will not complain because he is simply unable to win a single game
against Chessmaster. The typical user likes all the features of Chessmaster but
will not concern about the strongest possible engine .... Take other examples
like Fritz, ChessTiger and so on: all these programs satisfy both: the typical
user and the chess computer enthusiast.
Kurt



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