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Subject: Re: Why have the prices increased substantially?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 07:41:12 12/24/98

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On December 24, 1998 at 08:22:24, Milton Zucker wrote:

>
>For the most part, prices for chess programs are much cheaper than they were a
>year ago with 2 exceptions - Genius 6 and Hiarcs 7.  I think these programs are
>testing the waters to see if they can still get the old prices.  But if their
>sales lag, I bet their prices will go down as well.
Yes, I think they are testing the market to see if their prices will stand the
test. But the price of upgrade is still quite expansive, and you only get a 50
points ELO improvement in comparison to the old chess engine. I would wait until
there was a significant improvement, such as larger endgame tablebases, or at
least 100 ELO improvement.



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