Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:45:40 04/11/04
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On April 11, 2004 at 15:03:20, William Penn wrote: >On April 10, 2004 at 22:47:29, Fred Dowell wrote: > >> I'm trying to locate used l chess cd's I can purchase (not copies). Does anyone >>know where a good place to look other than Ebay? >>Thanks, >>Tactikon > >I've got several original, outdated-version CDs that I'll never use again >(Chessmaster, Hiarcs, Shredder, Big Database, etc), as do probably most people >who read this NG. I'm not sure if it's worth my time to fool with it for the >small money involved, but I might sell them. What are you looking for? Or you >might look on the r.g.c.g. NG or ebay, I see them advertised occasionally. On >the other hand, considering the whopping price paid for some old chess computers >recently, maybe its worth hanging onto them for possible future profits as >collector items. Anybody want some old original Chessmaster and other 5.25" >floppy chess disks for the Commodore 64/128? I've got quite a few in the other >room if mold hasn't eaten them up entirely... :) >-WP Generally speaking - 1 version old Chessbase engines - say Fritz 7 or Shredder 7 will sell for about 50% off the current version -- used prices generally fetch 50-75% - so you might get $10 to $18. The next subsequent older version (Fritz 6) will sell for 50% of that - say $5 - $8. Most of the older CM series used will sell just for a few bucks if at all. I have not seen any market for the real old copyrighted chess software engines. I believe in many case all the allowable installations were used, thus making the disks evetually worthless. I did buy used Chess Genius Gold Collection for a 1 Euro on the Germany Ebay - that was good deal - but it cost about 10 Euros to send it over the big pond back to me.
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