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Subject: Re: Why Fritz is the most popular program out of all Chessbase GUI

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:24:52 03/01/03

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On March 01, 2003 at 11:37:29, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>fritz is very much their in-house production and is synonymous with chessbase;
>(beside being their flaghip)the others are merely marketed by chessbase but
>produced by pvt contractors, some of whom even produce versions for rival
>companies; also fritz has been for long unrivalled at tactics and I guess that
>is what most GM want a comp pogramme for; relying on their own judgement for
>strategy and positional play; this of course has now changed with all top
>programmes being good at all things to a varying degree

Great point, thanks for clarifying the issue.

Pichard


>
>On March 01, 2003 at 08:44:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>At first I thought that the Strength is the reason why most people select Fritz
>>instead of Junior, Shredder etc..... But the reason why I think the most peole
>>select Fritz is simply because it gives them security of having NOT just the
>>strongest, but also the only program that offers at least two upgrades before
>>the next version is released, and this alone is the most important factor when
>>it is time to select your program. Now considering for instance Junior 8 which
>>will be release in two weeks, once you order it there would NOT be any further
>>upgrades untill the next version and the same goes for Shredder 7.
>>
>>PS: Long live Frans Morsch marketing strategy.
>>
>>Pichard.



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