Author: Mike Hood
Date: 16:14:02 04/06/03
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On April 06, 2003 at 18:10:46, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>Personally, I think that Chessbase should give away the old engines free of >>charge. After all, the potential sales income for Fritz 5.32 would be very low >>in 2003, so not much money would be lost by giving it away. I don't mean giving >>it away on the Internet... that would be counterproductive, lowering sales of >>the new products. What I mean is that each new program CD should include copies >>of the older versions of the same engine. Seriously... is there any reason that >>someone who buys Junior 8 shouldn't get free copies of Junior 5, 6 and 7 on the >>same CD? > > >the main purchasers of chessprogramms ar us guys who want to test against the >other software; one can only make money if one get such guys to buy all the >different versions; after all if one wanted to buy a chess software only to play >against the there is no need to include all the old versions as well; fritz 5.32 >howver comes packaged with all the fritz versions free of charge Yes, Fritz 5.32 includes 16-bit engines for Fritz 1, Fritz 3, Fritz 4 and Fritz 5. This was a nice little "gift" from Chessbase that didn't cost them much but made their customers happy. The original version of Fritz 5.32 also included fully functional full versions of Fritz 3 (Dos) and Fritz 4 (Windows 16-bit). This is the version that I bought, immediately after its release. A friend of mine bought Fritz 5.32 a year later, and it no longer included Fritz 4.
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