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Subject: Re: Is Computer Chess Software A Mature Market ??

Author: Steve Glanzfeld

Date: 15:03:19 10/29/04

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On October 29, 2004 at 15:35:44, Peter Skinner wrote:

>(...)
>Personally I think _much_ more can be done to bring the Chessbase materials to
>North America, and the products from LokaSoft.
>
>I can think of many ways to take a bite out of the Chessmaster market here, but
>the European product vendors don't seem to care.

It's the same vice versa, comparing Germany to the US. Since Chessmaster 9000,
there is no box&docs conversion anymore, to german language. Ubi Soft does NOT
distribute CM there, the same way they do distribute a lot of pc games. Only
software specialists have imported it, probably having to take more efforts than
usual to obtain it. It's NOWHERE on the shelves in the typical software and
computer shops (the last one was CM8000 years ago).

There are lots of other flight simulations, but Ubi distributes their's
everywhere. There are lots of games from other distributors of any type, and Ubi
soft sells their's as well. Why not Chessmaster, which is a major product of
it's type??

The potential of the King engine is somewhat wasted, when approx. 50% of the
market are disregarded.

Steve



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