Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 09:33:22 04/04/02
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On April 04, 2002 at 10:34:42, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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 Why should ChessBase want to reduce YOUR costs ? 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. Bad idea !! If many enough subscribe, ChessBase would have so much money that they wouldn't bother to produce new versions for a long time. 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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