Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 11:10:52 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. 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. > >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 have very little doubt that the Chess Base company would want nothing better than that! Then all that crap swirling around the Dongle, would have never existed, because the program would have been so successful & such a best seller that no copy protection would ever have been necessary! We fortunate for companies like Chess Base, (and not only Chess Base, but Shroder & other's too), because they actually have been making programs for the Chess Expert's & Master's of the world, which to me is absurd, if you even pretend to study marketing at all. Ya make your product for the masses, for cripes sake, and if you want to sell a lot of them, you make them like a toy! I think there is no better compliment to a program then calling it a toy, for little kids & girls. There are much more of them, then their are products (= Toy's), for us serious chess masters! And what is it with this term, 'mean people, or 'meenies' I've seen it used several times here. I remember, 'Blue Meenies', from the Beatles movie, 'Yellow Submarine' I guess this term has really stuck:) Answers to other critisms, in another post... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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