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Subject: Re: Downloads at ChessBase: What's up?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 11:23:47 01/12/02

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On January 12, 2002 at 13:52:42, Torstein Hall wrote:

>Do you think it is so expensive to pay about 50 Euro for a chess engine? And I
>do not think it adds much to the cost to sell every engine with a user
>interface! (Try to calculate yourself how much extra expence it adds to burning
>the CD....)And that way you will always have the latest interface for your new
>and old engines. Great if you ask me!

The price isn't that unfair for engine and GUI as a seperate issue. The problem
arises if you want more than one engine, eg. the latest Shredder, Junior and
Fritz. Three virtually identical interfaces. And in most cases even the
interfaces from the previous generation are more than sufficient.

Regards,
Mogens



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