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Subject: Re: From Chessbase.com/Mig

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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