Author: David Dahlem
Date: 20:50:52 04/18/05
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On April 18, 2005 at 19:26:55, pavel wrote: >On April 18, 2005 at 15:01:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>As teens, we love novelty. As they, we want to know every week of a new rock >>star. In our case, a new darling chess program to shaken our progresive boredom >>and satiation with too strong and too similar products. >>We have already seen many of these runs, but this time the novelty inside the >>novelty is that the hoopla was not worth of even the regimental week of >>enthusiasm. Sure, the iranian kid is a very talented one and perhaps he will >>amaze us next year, but now, looking at the games posted here, it seems as Ktulu >>is kind of a precociously marketed thing by a precociously greedy young man. > >What marketing sceme by the author of Ktulu do you have problems with? >Care to point, I would be very interested. > >I haven't seen any comments yet (maybe I missed) by the author claiming it to be >the best in the world, or anything to that effect. Only the beta-testers and the >ones who actually bought the software, have shown some impressive results; and >perhaps overblown it's actual strength. Beta-testers don't speak for the >authors. What did he (the author) actually said, that made it seems like a >"precociously marketed thing by a precociously greedy young man"? > >Thanks >pavs Perhaps he means this comment ... "It's possible that Ktulu 7.0 is one of the strongest 3-7 available chess engines!" from the order page of Ktulu 7.0 at http://www.gladiatorshop.com Regards Dave > > > > >>At least we can say, in his favor, that Ktulu deserves more our money than other >>commercial stuff of dubious quality. >>I wonder how some people dare to make business with merchandise lot inferior to >>freeware stuff. >>Fernando.
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