Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:46:02 11/03/98
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On November 03, 1998 at 13:53:31, Moritz Berger wrote: >On November 03, 1998 at 12:05:30, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>When you see the incredible package Millenium is going to offer, -see gambitsoft >>news- with half a dozen ultra top programs instead of just two ultra top with >>some second best engines around as Chessbase does, then you can understand the >>lightning speed of Ed price slashing. I sincerely doubt that anybody here will >>be capable of resisting such a package, even if the price is around 150 >>bucks...and it will be considerable less, so some people told me. And you know >>that nobody here, not even idiots like me, are willing to expend an unlimited >>amount of money purchasing all. If you get A, you does not get B, so simple like >>that. Sure that this rule is what was and still stay in Ed's mind. >>Fernando > >quote from www.computerchess.de: > >Shredder 3 (Stefan Meyer-Kahlen) >Nimzo 2000 (Chrilly Donninger) >W-Chess 2000 (Dave Kittinger) >Zarkov 2000 (John Stanback) >GrandmasterBook II (the ultimate opening CD-ROM) > >Top engines: Genius 6, Shredder 3, Nimzo 2000 >THREE (3) top engines >TWO "runners up" (2): Zarkov, W-Chess >No engine at all: GrandmasterBook II > >If you assume a 200 point rating gain from W-Chess to W-Chess 2000, then that's >FOUR (4) top engines > >ChessBase offers: >Fritz 5 (16 and 32 bit) >Hiarcs 6 (16 bit) >Junior 5 (32 bit) >Nimzo 99 (32 bit) >FOUR (4) "ultra"-top engines. > >TWO "runners up" (2): Crafty, Comet > > >Please get your numbers right, Fernando ;-) > >BTW, I'm glad to get a new version of Genius plus a new W-Chess from Kittinger; >I can't hardly await to buy it. I just hope that they don't mess up the copy >protection this time like with Genius 5, Shredder 2 (CD required at each start >if you use Windows NT) and W-Chess 1.04 (program gone after 3 installs). > >Moritz OK, Moritz, maybe I do not know to count, but then you does not know when you are facing a metaphor. "Half a dozen" is a way to say that something is above 3 o 4 units but less than 10, more or less. Is just a verbal tool, not a mathematic one. Besides, is Chessbase giving all that NOW? You get it at once as in Millenium, in the package, or you must purchase it as a different merchandise? So what I meant is that Millenium will give you a complete and amazing package at once with "half a dozen" top programs -"ultra" was, also, a metaphor- and that is new or so I believe. But all this does not matter. Like you, I am already provisioning funds to purchase that thing. And yes, I hope too not stupids decision on behalf of safety devices for avoiding copies. Fernando
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