Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:16:02 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 10:00:00, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 19, 2003 at 09:42:52, Mike S. wrote: > >>On June 19, 2003 at 09:22:04, Anthony Boynes wrote: >> >>>On June 19, 2003 at 09:15:31, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >>> >>>>Sorry, but the engine that played Kasparav is NOT available as single-cpu >>>>engine. It only exists as a multi-cpu engine, therefore was only included in the >>>>Deep Junior package. Since you did not buy Deep Junior 8, you do not have the >>>>right to claim the Kasparov engine. Simply put, it's impossible for ChessBase to >>>>fulfil your wish. >> >>>Wrong. The chessbase site shows that those engines WILL run on single cpu >>>machines. >> >>True, but for once try to see it from ChessBase's viewpoint: They have *two >>products*, Junior 8, and Deep Junior 8 for twice the price of the single CPU >>version. >> >>So, if they would provide the *single CPU* version customers with an SMP engine >>as a replacement for the missing Kasparov single engine, all the *Deep* Junior 8 >>customers will complain. > >I see nothing to complain about for customers of Deep Junior. >They knew the price and they bought it. > >Even in the extreme case that chessbase decide in the future that Deep Junior is >a free program they have nothing to complain about. > >They have a reason to complain only if chessbase promised something and does not >keep the promise. > >People who complain about good things that other people get legally are simply >bad people. > >Uri Thinking about it again it is not so simple and for example correspondence players who use Deep Junior may be afraid to lose their relative advantage but again I think that it is useless for A to complain about a deal between B and C even if there are reasons that A does not like the deal. It is not a reason to boycott a company when not giving what you bought is a good reason to do it. Uri
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