Author: blass uri
Date: 10:25:16 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 10:42:49, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On December 21, 1998 at 08:20:15, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>I was at a number of scholastic tournament over the years with alot of kids >>between 8 & 12 years old. In the lobby of the hotel the ones that had notebook >>computers all had Chess Master on them. They really liked the colorful (and >>this mostly on D' Scann screens), chess boards & game sounds, with music. >> >>My girlfriend is 28. She doesn't really like chess too much anymore, but >>suddenly she is playing Chess Master 6000 everyday. Why is that? "I like the >>personalities" You can set them for whatever blitz time control you like, they >>start with a preconfigured rating, but then after each game they change, just >>like in a real tournament, except that after I lose, I don't have some dumm guy >>hitting on me, while offering his 'Great chess wisdom'. I really like the Wendy >>personality right now. You should try this Larry, You'll like it". >> >>You can't argue with the like's/disslike's of little kids & young girls, so I >>wouldn't even try. I'm sure Mindscape figured this out in one of their >>marketing 101 meetings, said, "Screw it to the advanced chess features, lets >>make a product that we can sell to these little kids and young girls, and maybe >>we'll throw in a few bones for those dumm-ass chess master's too later on..." >> >> >>Ho, Ho, Ho everybody! >>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! > >I am not going to go into why this post heading makes me angry, I am fed up with >all you CM likers and dislikers who still like to throw little insults at the >program. > >Even though yes little Children and young girls might like this program, this is >a carefully written insult to the program. I am not sure that mindscape think the same They want to sell their program and if people encourage little children and girls to buy chessmaster then they can be satisfied. Nice story you wrote but I see no >other point to this post other than to get the usual CM6K lovers to yet again >defend their program. I thought we were past all this, I suppose not. > >All I can say is WHATEVER, last time I respond to these pointless CM6K posts. > >And yes Micheal Cummings is defending CM6K from all you mean people out there >who just want to pick and stir on this program. I think that it was better if the subject was CM6000 is *also* for little children and young girls but the subject did not say that it is *only* for little children and young girls. > >Plus over the years CM was the cheapest program with a strong engine on the >market, thats why kids had it. Think they are going to dish out 4 times as much >to get Fritz and other top programs years back. > >Well gee if they did, you would be writing Fritz is for little children and >girls :-) > >Then what would people say. I think that chessbase will be happy if many little children and girls will buy fritz Uri
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