Author: pavel
Date: 11:29:46 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 13:46:39, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 06, 2002 at 13:31:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On December 06, 2002 at 13:29:48, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>>The poll is largely based by the popularity of the engine, not it's >>>>qualities. >>> >>>The popularity is effected by quality or what people believe to have quality. >> >>It's much much much much much more affected by marketing than anything else. >> >>-- >>GCP > >I see that chessmaster was used only by 1% inspite of the fact that it is >probably sold more than other engines so the question which chess engine to use >is not effected by the popularity in the general public. > >It is effected by what they believe to be better. >I do not say that they are right about it and it seems that for some reason >chessmaster is underestimated(I do not know if it is the best but it certainly >deserves more than 1% because I read here good results of the unticker >personality) > >Uri The fact that only 74 people voted, and the fact that webpage is a german webpage, questions the reliability of poll and how it resembles popularity of the chess-program. Fritz is a program sold by a german company, so it is only natural to see more people using it, by german people on a germen webpage. Do it on USA, with 100s of people voting on the poll, you are most likely to see a differant result, IMO. cheers, pavs
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