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Subject: Re: The pressure is on, but is it enough?

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 05:36:26 01/13/99

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On January 12, 1999 at 23:57:32, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>I copied this message from, www.gambitsoft.com/news.htm
>
>New news about GENIUS 6!
>
>Today the Millennium GmbH called us again and said we should write that it was
>NOT SURE if the 32 Bit GENIUS 6 engine would cost anything or not. We have done
>that herewith and you can read between the lines! By the way, do not expect that
>engine anytime soon! - 1/12/99
>
>In my opinion, officials of the Millenium company have heard the 'unrest' of us
>natives and are starting to reconsider their marketing strategies.  The question
>is how much (and how many), of us yelling at them it will take to make them 'see
>the light'.
>
>I suggest a continued barrage of incredulous outrage from us poster's that they
>could consider trying to sell us the Genius6 engine again that we already
>bought. HOW COULD THEY?
>
>Also, lets continue to complain (& as loudly as possible), about them not
>including support for stuff like the smart board, when they had already done so
>in their previous version...
>
>They will 'Get it' eventually, if they really want to sell alot of their
>Millenium product, to us chess software buying people...
>
>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!


Hi Larry:
I wonder if Millenium people cares too much about us, the natives. How much we
are? At most, 4000. Anyway only a fraction of those 4000 was going to purchase
his G6. Certainly Millenium cannot live of what we do, fraction of 4000 guys.
They are aiming at the great european and american market, where thousands of
people that purchase software does not even knows about CCC. They maybe would
like we were happy, but they will not disturb too much if not. But, of course,
as usual, I can be mistaken and so you will get the 32 engine for free. In my
case I will not do any move until be convinced that G6, 32 bits or not, is much
better that G5.
fernando



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