Author: blass uri
Date: 04:29:05 03/31/99
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On March 31, 1999 at 05:56:51, Harald Faber wrote: >On March 30, 1999 at 19:32:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>>Ed from Rebel realised this and cut his price in half. He can see the way the >>>market is. And since he will not allow the SSDF to rate his program, I think he >>>is even in a worse position. >>An interesting remark. Cutting the cost of the program may not drive sales the >>way that Ed would like. And a rating of computer verses computer that has a >>different program a few points higher will drive a buy decision. Is that the >>only reason that people buy chess programs? So that they can beat a different >>chess program 5% more often? > >Most of us want the strongest program for best analysis. And the only hint to >get the information, which program is the strongest, is the SSDF list, at least >for most of the (computer) chess interested. >SSDF IS a very important list that increases or decreases the number of sales. >I'd bet that the sold copies of MCP decreased since v.6 because v7. and v.8 are >rated lower than 6.0. I clearly remember questions WHY MCP8 is weaker than MCP7 >and 6. These questions were only referring to the SSDF list as if this list is >the only one and the only true list and reflects the overall strength. >So we can see the big significance of this SSDF list. And I doubt that Ed has >disadvantage not to be present in that list. Because I doubt that Rebel10 would >be rated in the TOP 5 which probably would harm the sales. The problem is that you cannot trust the autoplayer for Dos programs Ed told us here that he played Rebel10 against MCP8 and found strange results of something like 19:2 for Rebel(I am not sure if I remember the exact result). He found that the problem was the autoplayer and MCP8 did mistakes that it does not do without the autoplayer. I do not think that the ssdf list is important. The most popular program is chessmaster and not because it was in the ssdf list. I believe that most of the buyers do not know about the ssdf list. Uri
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