Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 10:12:43 03/31/99
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On March 31, 1999 at 07:29:05, blass uri wrote: > >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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