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Subject: Re: The author of Shredder needs to improve his marketing skills!

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 17:33:03 12/23/03

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On December 23, 2003 at 20:08:45, Rick Rice wrote:

>Consider the situation: His program was World Champion a couple of times in the
>last 3-4 years. His program is sold through the same marketing firm as Junior
>and Fritz. However, while the other two have made good money and publicity
>playing the Human World Chess Champions, Shredder has still to get started. Very
>surprising; one would think that the American would be most aggressive in
>marketing as compared to the European and Israeli? Can anybody explain?


Do you have sales figures about Shredder? It's doing very well, I see lots of
copies floating around on various online servers, and here on this forum I
regularly see messages about Shredder. For now there's no proof that playing
against a strong human in a match increases its popularity from zero to
infinity.

As Russell already indicated, the author, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, is German.

J.



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