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Subject: Re: How many copies does a top program sells?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 05:48:42 01/10/06

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On January 10, 2006 at 06:57:21, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 10, 2006 at 06:35:04, Pro Deo wrote:
>
>>Hi !
>>For GUI features of course .
>>Regards
>
>ok so why fritz and not Hiarcs?
>Hiarcs also comes with the same gui and is of similiar strength to Fritz.
>
>Uri

Marketing. Chessbase invested in Fritz as a brand-name. I'm not saying that
Fritz hasn't been a top program, but the main reason is marketing. Even now, one
would more often see Hiarcs 10 described as coming in the "Fritz" GUI, and not
the CB playing GUI.

                                         Albert



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