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Subject: Re: From Chessbase.com/Mig

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 09:39:34 07/15/02

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On July 15, 2002 at 12:35:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>If Quest had won, would the ad copy have been the same? ;-)  Or would we see
>"World Champion!" stamped on all of the new boxes?
>
>I do not see it as an issue of lying.  I see it as an issue of typical marketing
>hype.
>
>Basically, I take everything any chess program company says with a grain of
>salt.
>
>If you just believed what you read on the boxes, all the programs are the
>world's best and ready to pummel Kasparov at the first opportunity.  Reality is
>somewhat different.

The hype is that they wrote it since 1976 or earlier...

That was in a time where many of the members here were not even born! :)

Rolf Tueschen



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