Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 08:34:35 05/13/02
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On May 12, 2002 at 20:58:15, K. Burcham wrote: >there are all sorts of reasons people buy programs. i dissagree with the above >statement. if the consumer only bought programs to improve their play, they >could have stopped buying with Fidelity. most all chess players cannot beat any >of the old programs, so i conclude they could still be learning from the old >programs. but instead, chess program enthusiasts keep buying programs, most with >every release that comes out. i feel the biggest market for commercial chess >programs are the people that view programs as an arcade game. A semi-non-participatory arcade game! (For 'Fidelity' read 'Genius for Palm' and 'Tiger for Palm' in my case; for this reason - that I never play programs against one another and have no great desire to be demolished in every game - I'm not interested in which of Hiarcs 8 or Fritz 7 is better, together with a thousand similar questions). >some of these guys are chess fans, but most of them do not sit around playing >their program to increase their personal level of play. >now it has become a game that they can play program vs program on the internet. I suppose I'm a highly unusual reader of this forum, but I have no interest in doing this and, further, have difficulty understanding _why_ anyone would do it ... although many people evidently do. (That I have no interest in spectator sports may be an explanation).
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