Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:48:51 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 06:30:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>On January 10, 2002 at 04:59:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2002 at 04:38:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I also do not see a reason for chessbase to give Shredder inferior book and if
>>>they do it then I do not see a reason for stefan to work with chessbase.
>>
>>a) It is better for ChessBase to have Fritz scoring well rather than to have
>>Shredder scoring well. (brand recognition, see PocketFritz)
>
>I do not understand it
>If shredder is a chessbase program it should change nothing.
>
>If people never heard about shredder they will ignore the fact that shredder
>does well and if people hear that Shredder is number 1 when Fritz is number 2
>then they are probably going to buy Shredder.
>
>Pocket Fritz is a different case because there was no Fritz for the pocket PC
>and if there is only one program they prefered to call it Fritz and not
>Shredder.
What if Frans Morsch decides to make a program for the Pocket PC? WIll he call
it Pocket Shredder? :-)
Albert
>
>>
>>b) No doubt Stefan earns decent money with ChessBase. If he quits, the
>>alternatives might not be so good.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>I do not see what Stefan earns from using a bad book for his program.
>
>If stefan's program can be number 1 in the ssdf and it is not number 1 thanks to
>chessbase then it seems that stefan is losing from chessbase.
>
>The number of people who want to buy an inferior program relative to Fritz is
>not very high unless the program has the name chessmaster.
>
>Uri
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