Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 15:54:04 01/11/99
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Let us hope that this is some kind of Kirsan Iiyumzhinov like pre-realease like advirtising, designed to get us talking about Genius6 before it actually finally appears. For if it is true (That even current owner's of Millenium Genius are going to have pay when Genius6 comes out), they are making a very BIG mistake as Chess Base found out when they insisted on having their stupid dongle for so many years. Many customer's they could have had before with a more sensible copy protection scheme, they lost. Of course they could tell themselves that we chess software consumers were not a significant impact to their sales, but they would (and were), wrong. Millenium will also learn in time, and realese this Genius 6 engine free to us foolish chess adicts! like myself, who already purchased their Millenium interface. Because just like with Rebel10, they will come to realize what a big boo-boo they have done when adverse publicity hits the fan. We inkompetent chess software addicts! (And their are many of us!), inform potential new customer's on a daily bases, what products offer the best and most economic features for the money. The most sensible thing they could do RIGHT NOW, is too get it on their Web page that there was a very big missunderstanding of who was gonna be charged, when Genius6 finally does come out... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On January 11, 1999 at 15:45:18, RICARDO REGO wrote: >I got this message from Chess Gambit web site: > >"Today (Jan/11/99) the Millennium GmbH told us quite surprisingly that the 32 >Bit GENIUS 6 engine, which is still being developed and was supposed to be >included in the GENIUS 6 CD, WOULD NOT BE FREE. We had misunderstood them. But >there would be a free bugfix soon. We are quite surprised! How can anybody sell >GENIUS 6 twice? - 11/1/99" > >Very bad news.....
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