Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:53:26 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 17:52:29, Sune Fischer wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 17:38:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>You are wrong. >> >>Not everybody has the space for 1.6TB of nalimov EGTBs (assuming the 33p which >>is 65 egtb's or so in nalimov format fit within 1TB together with the remaning >>42p). >> >>If that in diep format is like 10GB, odds are more positive. > >It's still 10GB on top of the Nalimov which you need anyway to feed to your >fritzes. > >But 10 GB for 6 man does sound cool, too bad it isn't public :( > >>Further which user knows nalimov? >> >>A few chessfreaks sure. Not the average user. > >The average user doesn't know about endgame tables, so we must be talking >strictly "hardcore" here :) > >>They basically know, if they know anything the chessmaster format at the moment >>:) > >I think Chessbase and Fritz is the most widely known combination of software, at >least here in Denmark among club players. How many copies did fritz sell? Chessmaster like 6 million or so. Forget it. Chessmaster is number 1. Then somewhere in a dark gray room at playchess you'll find a few chessbase fans. >Everybody seems to know about Fritz, but they have never heard of Shredder and >they think Chessmaster is a toy thing for kids. >Some of them have heard of Junior though. >It's a bit sad really, they blindly buy fritz when they need an analysis tool >because that is what all the others use. Wait until you see chessmaster users :) >You won't believe how many times I've explain they should start out with the >strong winboard engines which they can download _for free_. >-S. No one gets that to work except a few dudes. Like 99.999% of the population will not get winboard engines to work even if you make a video how to do it.
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