Author: Chuck
Date: 04:01:52 11/21/04
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On November 20, 2004 at 23:31:19, ERIQ wrote: >On November 20, 2004 at 21:11:14, Chuck wrote: > >>Seems like more of an advertisement than a review. Seriously. >> >> >>A couple of points to elaborate: >>1. Only one negative comment is made, that being an upfront disclaimer about the >>dropping of ICC, obviously putting the fire out first. After that, no contrasts >>with other programs that put CA in a negative light. This is not a review. It's >>a commercial. >>2. It seems that all of your recent reviews are only of Convekta products (not >>to mention you were a beta tester), so I think you should state up front what >>your relationship is with the company, if any. >> >>Now my opinion, as a long-time CB8 user, is that Chess Assistant may be a >>worthwhile competitor. One issue on which I have no data, is how often it >>crashes or corrupts data files. I have know CB8 to occasionally corrupt data >>files. >> >>Overall, it seems worth a try, especially if the price is less than Chessbase, >>and what I've seen of CB9 hasn't impressed me yet. On the other hand, I see the >>dropping of ICC for the server chosen as a big mistake. Perhaps giving the >>option of another, more international server would have done better? My point >>here is I recognize ICC is not the best corporate partner, especially since they >>think they already have everything, but the chosen server is hardly acceptable, >>in my opinion, to the English-speaking market. > >ICC is a dying server now w/ all of it's issues, I don't blame them a bit. > >Why would I choose a chess web server that doesn't even have an English help >file? >why not ?! I think I answered this question in this paragraph, though it's now difficult to tell since it was broken into pieces by the reply. >No matter how you try to >>spin it, your arguement won't fly when there are a number of native English >>chess servers out there. I have to sum this up as Convekta choosing the Russian >>market over the English market, which is their choice and I'm sure the Russian >>market is big, but it does exclude me. > >why would it exclude you ?? Again, we have a self-answering question here if one took the time to read a paragraph and recognize the message therein. Why would the Russian market exclude me? Perhaps because I'm not Russian!? I'm trying hard here to just ask for a little reasoning capacity and not correspond on the level of the questions asked. Regards, Chuck >I have little need to talk to anyone while playing and most will find the >interface easy to figure out anyway. > >>Again, I think overall that CA8 may be worth trying, but certainly not for the >>internet chess service. Chessbase beware. >I agree the internet service has fallen by the waste side but CA in general is a >great product that seems to keep getting better, IMHO I think f.i.c.s. would >have been a better choice for them but what do I know? :) > > >>Chuck
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