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Subject: Re: Has anyone purchased software from SlipperyParrot.com

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:32:16 01/30/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 16:03:35, Anatoli wrote:

>On January 30, 2002 at 08:25:18, David Tipper wrote:
>
>>I am interested in comments from customers who have purchased the SP Superbase
>>(5 Million Games) from Slippery Parrot and whether they have been satisfied.  I
>>live in the UK so any comments from UK customers would be much appreciated.
>
>I was so silly to buy thier CD. They collected all rubbish from the Internet and
>sell it now. Probably they even don't have CB 7 or 8, because the whole base
>saved in the old format. But ! It doesn't have doulbles at all ! Can you help me
>to find an English word when there are 4 or 5 simulor games in the base ? You
>can find around 10 thousands games of Karpov, for example. When you clean up the
>whole base, you will have maximum 3 million games. Remove internet , computor
>games and you'' get much less games then you can buy from CB.
>My advice to everybody - STAY AWAY FROM slippery parrot


If "doubles" means sets of two that are the same, then quadruples (or
quadruplets) means sets of four that are the same, and quintuples (or
quintuplets) means sets of five that are the same.  Pretty bad for a games DB.

Thank you for the good information and advice about this product!



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