Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:05:44 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 09:36:07, Peter Berger wrote: >On April 04, 2001 at 22:23:32, John Merlino wrote: > >> >>The Game Room IS the "power user room", because you can do anything you want >>there: create and analyze with any personality, set up any position, look up >>database statistics, etc.). Chessmaster 8000's main design intention was to give >>the power user (once again, a very small portion of the people who buy the >>product) more of what he/she wanted, without making it too difficult or >>intimidating to our typical user (who, in many cases, is only barely computer >>literate). >> >>Chessmaster is unique among all of the programs mentioned on this board in that >>it has a completely different audience than Fritz, Rebel, Tiger, etc., and this >>drives much of the design/implementation decisions for the game. And, once >>again, the old axiom of "never do anybody half a favor" is starting to ring >>true.... ;-) >> >>jm > >Well , I think it is wrong to assume this effort isn't appreciated . > >You recently participated in the Moderator votes ; did you realize the big total >number of members who voted ? > >As the question of moderation probably doesn't interest too many anyway it is >safe to assume twice as much people >regularly have a look at this board . > >There is a group of people dissatisfied with the Chessmaster8000 product and >they post their opinion here . > >It seems to be about 10 people . > >I guess the rest either doesn't own the product , doesn't care for the >discussion or is simply satisfied . > >Which one you choose is a matter of philosophy ... ;-) > >pete > >PS : Btw : I don't understand why everybody seems to think a nice,entertaining >GUI isn't interesting for >the "power user" ( whatever this is supposed to be ) . I probably belong in this >category , too , but I watch the >whole movie _every_ time I start CM :-) . Hooray! Someone likes the movie! ;-) jm
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