Author: Milton Zucker
Date: 08:53:27 12/24/98
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On December 24, 1998 at 10:41:12, Laurence Chen wrote: >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. Actually, even though I am not thrilled about the higher price, I think that a 50 point improvement in elo rating (if true) at this high level of play is very good. I decided to give up the cash for the upgrade. But if I had to buy the new version I think I would look very hard at the competition before I forked over the money.
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