Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:58:32 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 18:53:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. I think I begin to see part of your problem. Apparently you live it a pit of ignorance and think that is how all the world looks. You are wrong. The orthopedic doctor that did my hand surgery 4 weeks ago asked me about alternatives to microsoft. I told him about linux. My next visit (1 week later) he had redhat 9 up and running. Installed by himself. No help. He discovered open office and had that running just fine. Not everyone in the world is incompetent. My daughter, a non-computer person, got cable modem working on a self-install, bought a wireless router and got her wireless laptop to share the cable modem connection with her home machine. No help...
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