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Subject: Re: New Avennues for Commercial Programs

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 11:57:35 08/22/05

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On August 22, 2005 at 04:05:26, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On August 21, 2005 at 14:51:17, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>As it have been mentioned here convincingly by several members, commercial
>>programs face at least a crisis. In short, why people is going to purchase
>>programs that are matched and even sometimes defeated on a regular base by some
>>exceptional freeware stuff?
>
>Don't overdo things. If you think Chessbase earnings and existence depend on the
>results of a WCCC and/or the sales to us freaks you are sadly mistaken. For sure
>they will lose some sales because freaks like us know where to get the other
>stuff and know how to install it. Real sales don't depend on the freaks but on
>the renown and reputation of your brand name, Chessmaster being the perfect
>example of that.
>
>Ed

Apparently Chessbase is worried enough about the perception problem that they
chose not to publish a *single* article about the WCCC on their website.

Compare this with previous years where they had detailed round-by-round updates.

-Peter




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