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Subject: Re: ChessBase.com = Deep Junior 9 - a review [by Aryan Argandewal]

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:34:58 02/14/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 21:24:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 14, 2005 at 16:50:43, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On February 14, 2005 at 16:39:02, Stephen Ham wrote:
>>
>>>On February 14, 2005 at 15:03:31, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Please see ==> http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2195
>>>
>>>Bom Dia, José
>>>
>>>Gosh, that was a review? It read more like an advertizement.
>>>
>>>As for the reviewer, I saw no evidence that he was able to back up what he
>>>claimed. While I don't doubt that much of what he wrote is indeed true, one
>>>still wonders whether he wrote from first hand experience, or whether he wrote
>>>based upon ChessBase's blurb on the back of the program's CD-box.
>>>
>>>I'm completing my review of Junior 9 for ChessCafe.com now. I've subjected
>>>Junior 9 to tests against other engines, and compared its move selection from
>>>positions in my correspondence chess games to others. My conclusions are quite
>>>favorable...I like Junior 9 a lot. I think that Amir and Shay did a fine job
>>>with this engine.
>>>
>>>All the best,
>>>Stephen
>>
>>My favorite part of the "review" was calling Fritz the "world's favorite". I'm
>>assuming that the reviewer is using some method other than total sales to count
>>the world's votes.... :-)
>>
>>jm
>
>Where do you find information about total sales for every program?
>
>Uri

I don't have the actual information. But Chessmaster sells more copies than any
other program, or even ALL other programs combined. This is well-known and has
been true for at least 8 years (since I initially started working on it during
the development of CM5500).

jm



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