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Subject: Re: Reason for buying the commercial programs

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 13:12:52 08/20/05

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On August 20, 2005 at 15:48:13, Arifur Rahman wrote:

>Well, it’s not like that Shredder did badly only in this tourney. Even in the
>Chess960 tournament in Germany Shredder finished 4th.
>
>This shows at least that the amateur programs have caught up (even passed?) with
>the top commercial programs. The main (maybe the only?) reason for buying a
>Fritz , Shredder etc over Zappa or Fruit will be because of the GUI that comes
>with the commercial programs.
>
>
>/Arifur

That is for sure not the main reason. I have bought this GUI already 6 times
and others even more often.

Michael

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