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

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:27:47 01/12/02

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On January 12, 2002 at 14:23:47, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>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

My only point is that I do not think that it really add that much, if anything
at all to the cost of the engine.

Torstein



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