Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 14:57:45 07/15/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 12:39:34, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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 That must have been quite amusing For Gary to read back then hehe.
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