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Subject: Re: Shredder or Fruit?

Author: Madhavan

Date: 04:26:20 09/09/05

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On September 09, 2005 at 07:21:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 09, 2005 at 06:41:24, Alex Shalamanov wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2005 at 05:55:16, Madhavan wrote:
>>
>>>I expect that there would be less customers if shredder were to be released
>>>sooner because of its WCCC results.
>>>For Fruit,I don't know I expect Fabien to give us a great surprise by releasing
>>>his program freely [with or without code]
>>>I don't want source code anyway :)
>>
>>I don't know. The correspondence chess community does not always take into
>>account the WCCC results because engine to engine games are not very important
>>for them.
>
>As a correspondence player engine games are important for me.
>
>
> What is more important for CC players is good deep analysis, training
>>and commenting facilities that is why they choose mostly CB Shredder or Fritz.
>
>I see no difference between Shredder UCI and CB Shredder and every engine that
>can be used under CB interface.
>
>
>>Since CC players are likely the most customers for chess products apart from OTB
>>titled players, it's this chess group that makes ultimate profits for chess
>>software developers.
>
>I doubt it.
>
>Are there more than 1000 correspondence players who buy new chessbase programs?
>
>My guess is that part of them use old programs and part of them crack chessbase
>software.
>
>There are less than 3000 players with ICCF rating of more than 2400 and I know
>that part of the players with ICCF rating of more than 2400 use old software and
>I guess that today big part is using only free software or quitted
>correspondence games.
>
> From my own CC experience I can say that most of my
>>opponents have been using Fritz or Deep Fritz as a chess engine which is the
>>most CC-friendly product.
>
>I do not agree that Fritz is the most CC-friendly product and I see no
>difference between using Fritz and using another engine under Fritz.


Fritz is more popular than other Chessbase softwares,It available near a shop.I
can't find Junior or shredder in that shop
I'm talking about Fritz's 20$ software which I bought from VivaMedia and not
from chessbase.

>I think that using Fritz may be productive not because it is better than other
>programs but because it is used by other players so it can be productive to
>predict their moves.
>
>Uri



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