Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:40:01 08/22/05
According to almost all comments originated by my post, I am exagerating a lot forecasting problems for commercial software due to the results of Fruit, Zappa, Spike and a couple of other excellent freeware programs. Well, I never said Chessbase is going to close his doors tomorrow morning. In fact they will not as much they begin to walk a new path, as they probably will do. What I said is that a commercial program sticking stubbornly to just the strenght and Gui variable is walking on a thin line. Next Fritz will try precisely to do otherwise. It is as simple as this: in any line of commercial products you must offer something really new after a decade or so, or you are busted. More: a commercial program capable of offering a real coach and chess friend along the line that I have dared to advise to a couple of programmers - to be frank, they consider the ideas interesting, but very hard to implement- will give new life to the entire business. Fact is almost all of us, as Dann Corbit say, get the advise in with an ear and we get it out trough the other. We need a friend capable of analysing our games even if the program is not loaded. As a resident program even when we write or browse or play a war game... We need that friend popping any moment in our screen asking "want to play?" We need the programs saying "your last game with me went astray in this move due to this and that" We need a program that detect our structural weakneses analyzing our games and giving us specific problems to improve in that area, not in any other of an indifferent list. We need a program intelligent enough to give us chances without saying it is in "friendly mode" or asking us to dissasemble half his brain. This and lot more and I will run to purchase it even at 150 bucks, but I will not expend even 10 to just other 10 elo stronger engine. Dedicated units does not give much advice also, but at least are richly pieces of something you can touch and smell. Frnando
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