Author: Mark Young
Date: 17:10:54 01/11/99
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On January 11, 1999 at 18:54:04, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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. Come on you babies, they are giving you a free bugfix soon. What do you want. M. L. C. A pissed off Rebel 10 fan. We are quite surprised! How can anybody sell >>GENIUS 6 twice? - 11/1/99" >> >>Very bad news.....
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