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Subject: Re: Unfair competition for Shredder, Junior?

Author: Ron Langeveld

Date: 08:32:55 08/28/01

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On August 28, 2001 at 11:20:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Hello,
>
>At chessbase homepage i see that fritz is sold for 50 mark now
>versus the other engines like junior, shredder 5.32 etcetera are
>all 100 mark.
>
>So fritz is VERY cheap. Even cheaper than chessmaster8000!
>
>Amazing!
>
>That's not exactly going to boost junior or shredder sales!
>
>In contradiction. that's like selling NOTHING from the other
>engines. Death penalty so to say.
>
>What do the programmers of the other engines say of this lowering
>the price from fritz6?
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent

The following should be obvious Vincent:

CB is probably dumping F6 stock for the next couple of months, after which the
soon to be released F7 is going to be full price again. Business as usual, and
very common practise.

Kind regards,
Ron

P.S. Give me call for a chat if you find the time, ok ?



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