Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:40:16 01/10/06
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On January 10, 2006 at 09:15:08, Henrik Dinesen wrote:
>On January 10, 2006 at 08:48:42, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>True. If people are a little bit "outside", they can easly mistake the CB GUI
>with Chessbase (the program), and chessprogramX.exe could to some be the same as
> Chesspartner or ChessAssistant, not to mention the concept of engines & GUI's.
>ChessBase (GmBh) has made it difficult to separate the concepts, and especially
>to describe them. Is that good marketing?
It's just a product line philosophy. Both Chessbase and the CB playing program
GUI overlap to a degree. It is completely obvious that they could easily
integrate the two into a single GUI just as Chess Assistant has done (which even
has direct access to TWO online servers), but having decided they wouldn't, the
question remains what to limit or remove. It isn't an easy decision and I can't
really fault CB for the confusion. What they have done quite well is to make
Fritz a byname in the chess community for tactical analysis.
Its first victory on the World Blitz Championship with Kasparov and Anand
participating was a huge coup. Not just for the engine, no others were present,
but for CB and the Fritz brand. Nowadays for example, one reads interviews of
Bareev saying, somewhat ironically it is true, that he just leaves Fritz running
to find opening novelties. The point isn't whether one should believe him or
not, but that he refers to Fritz as his 'obvious' example as opposed to the name
of any other engine. I'm sure that one reason is that he expects almost any
player reading this to know what he is referring to.
Albert
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