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Subject: Re: In the near future Advanced Chess will have its own Champion !

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 16:29:13 03/12/03

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On March 12, 2003 at 18:40:29, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>http://www.chessbase.com/events/events.asp?pid=133


You are funny with such a title line. Of course there could be such a challenge
if ChessBase gives the money. Who else other than ChessBase should be
interested? Because only in that style you need databases! So to me this always
was the same what the show-events always were - marketing and advertisement.

BTW let me show you another interesting strategy of ChessBase.

ChessBase did always progress with its programs so that the users were forced
[!] to buy new hardware because with older material you couldn't do this or
that. The last coup was the 3D board. Honestly I feel deceived by ChessBase.
Because I only read 3D, realistic and so on. But NEVER did they inform correctly
that you should have this or that graphics. Nowhere!

I remember other cases. Also with a chessprogram. At a certain time it was
forced to have a Pentium.


Conclusion? Ok, I have no proof, but it seems clear that already then ChessBase
got support by the Hardware industry. You must consider that ChessBase is
monopolist. They define the state of the art.

Rolf Tueschen



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