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Subject: Re: Ktulu mirage vanishing and precociously marketed shams always coming...

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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