Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 07:34:42 04/04/02
Chess Base is a great company; That being said, I think that the several hundred dollars I (and others no doubt), spend on updated versions of their playing programs and game databases each year, could be seriously reduced at very small cost to Chess Base by introducing a subscription based service much like Chess Publishing does. Here's how it would work: Lets say you wanted to own every new chess engine & upgrade that came out in a year - You would pay something like $200 dollars up-front, and then they would all be sent to you automatically. Say you only wanted to get upgrades of the Fritz engine (BTW, I'm not talking about the online upgrade of the gui here), then maybe you would pay something like $25 a year or whatever. The same sort of program could be applied to Game Databases like Mega and Correspondence chess & so forth. If you are a user of Chess Base products for many years, and have often bought these game databases & playing programs, then the savings of subscribing to such a program (if it existed), could become quite substantial. I especially wecome replies from Chess Base officials... Larry S. Tamarkin Chess program & data addict.
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