Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 17:47:30 06/17/03
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On June 17, 2003 at 20:19:05, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Terry, > >> I contacted ChessBase, and they claim there is no evidence that they sold >> Junior 8 with the extra Junior Engines. > >That is really unbelieveable that they do it that way... We ALL know that they >advertised it with: "Including Engine of Kasparov-Junior Match" or something >like that... I really do not understand why they go this way now... okay, we all >know that no single engine exists of that tournament, but as a good will they >could offer you something other in there huge repertoire or to take back the >Junior 8 package... > >> Can someone here supply the proof? I'm afraid I never copied their orginal >> advertisement. Nor do I have a copy of Junior 8 which mentions the extra >> engines on the cover. The manual isn't of much help either as it says Junior >> 8 comes with extra engines but not which engines...sigh.. > >I will try to take a look at ebay and amazon... it's not long ago where there >were some announcements of Junior 8 with the Kasparov-Junior Engine included - >maybe they also have included some original chessbase info... > >Greets, Thomas Thanks Thomas, here's the e-mail I sent ChessBase and their reply. I find this behaviour disconcerting as well. =============================================================================== Hello Terry, I have no knowledge of this advertisement. In case you can show me the advertisement in any way, I will make a strong case for you and see what I can do. No promises however, and certainly not via our site. Hiarcs is still in progress, a date has not been set (yet). Best wishes, Hans Terry McCracken wrote: Hello Steffen Giehring , I'm writing you about Junior 8 and your intial advertising. When I ordered Junior 8, due to an error in your advertising campaign I was under the impression, like Deep Junior 8, I would get the extra engines that Deep Junior 8 ports but as single processor versions. Some people I believe even had this information on the first batch of Junior 8 written on the back of the cover, but to their chagrin they only obtained the final ver., no extra Junior engines. Although I'm somewhat disappointed, Junior 8 was worth the purchase and you and Amir provided a much needed patch quickly, thanks. However, will you and Amir Ban compensate this error by providing these other engines, YY and XZ single processor versions for Junior 8 via your site? I do hope so. Now that I have your attention, will HIARCS 9 be released soon? Kind Regards, Terry McCracken =============================================================================== I've done business with them directly for over a year and bought their products for the last 2 and a half years! I would have hope they would be more willing to correct this matter. I'll keep Junior 8, but I'm not impressed that they would try and cover up their error. I don't like posting e-mails but this is a special case. Regards, Terry
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