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Subject: Re: Reason for buying the commercial programs

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 13:37:19 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

The advance of amateurs is great. Strength will no longer distinguish Chessbase
from the rest of the pack. In fact, its engines might end up being middle of the
pack in another few months. Chessbase will need to be more ingenious in terms of
its interface, the playchess server, and put more database features into its
Fritz interface in order to keep marketshare. That's great for us.

The best chess interface hasn't been invented yet.

Roger



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