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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 19:16:01 02/14/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 21:59:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 14, 2005 at 21:34:58, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Without knowing how many copies other sell I see no way to be sure about it.
>

Remember The Chessmaster program sell not only in pc versions, but palm,
Playstation, and Nintendo, etc.

>Uri



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