Author: Heinz van Kempen
Date: 05:05:37 06/20/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 07:54:33, Murano Lima wrote: > >>I am not sure if successes for Fruit will lead to less sells in the stores. >>Engine testing is a freak sector. The "normal" chessplayers aren´t aware that >>there is something else than ChessBase or high end graphics Chessmaster. >> > >Hello Heinz, > >that is exactly my experience with chessfriends of mine. >Even when I try to convince them that there are many strong free etc engines: >They dont care :-) >No matter what strength The Fabulous Fruit will ever gain: >The established commercials wont even notice. >(Just as they dont care too much about us freaks now...) > >regards >Murano Hi Murano, yes, I told the chessplayers from my club about strong free engines and all what I am seeing are disbelieving glances. As if they want to say...."what costs nothing can´t be really good". I would guess that from 200 players of my club and those in the whole city hardly five ever heard of Fruit, Slow Chess, List, Aristarch.... Those hobby players not members in clubs just walk through the stores and look for a cardboard with nice colourful pictures on it. 3-D is still magic for them and 95% even of the weaker amateurs would be too strong for them. So strength does not really matter for selling, although some years ago we always had the nice logos "Computer Chess World Champion". Best Regards Heinz
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