Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 02:23:34 12/24/98
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On December 24, 1998 at 02:30:18, Reynolds Takata wrote: >This article in American Chess Journal, claims that Dvoretsky reputedly the >worlds best chess trainer is or was writing a chess program does anyone know >anything about it? > > >"Profile | The World's Best Chess Trainer > Timothy Hanke > > Dvoretsky is now hard at work on an interactive computer program that >will solve [an important training problem] by incorporating his entire > collection of positions organized by theme ... I asked Dvoretsky how >much the program will cost. "It will be very expensive," he told me. I suggested >that > he might sell more copies and make more money if he offered it at a >lower price. He replied, "I don't care if I sell more copies. This material is >not for > everyone." He is proud of his work as a trainer over the past 20 years >and considers this computer program to be a kind of summation of his > achievement. It seems to be a matter of principle for him that his >work must not go cheap. Obviously Doveretsky is a brilliant chess trainer, but likely a very poor business person. Even if he did (or was in the process of creating), such an amazing program, Current offerings from these various publisher's; (did I leave some good one's out? - maybe Book-UP?). 1. Chess Mentor 2. Chess Base Training CD's and Tactics on CBM magazine 3. Convekta's, Stategy, Studies, and Middle Game Encyclopidia 4. Tasc CD - Chessica & 5 tactics and chess game learning module's on one CD at a very low price. 5. Chess Academy's Database, and training module's (currently 24 different courses available). Are there people here who have this, and have used it. KK said in his review, that it was excellent for its cost. create a situation where almost no one would want to buy his program at a very high price, or variation "B", and much more likely, he would have to incorporate his training program into one of the above already selling products. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that their would not be a big demand for Doveretsky software material. I'm only saying that it is unlikely that he could improve much on what already exist, and the price(s), avialable. Its very much like the situation that currently exist, with two extroadary chess playing interfaces, Fritz Interface & Millenium Interface, and it is just a question of what should the available engines cost... mrslug - the inkopetent software addict!
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