Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 02:03:12 07/16/02
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On July 15, 2002 at 17:57:45, Marc van Hal wrote: >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. You got it, Kasparov and Karpov themselves were supporting such propaganda with their names, pictures and phrases. Moral: It's all about the money. The interesting aspect is that the early products often had not even the complete chess rules implemented. Rolf Tueschen
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