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Subject: Re: why did people buy it

Author: Barry Culp

Date: 12:39:30 01/22/06

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On January 22, 2006 at 14:44:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 22, 2006 at 02:31:39, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>If shredder 9 was no better than 8, why on earth did people by it? and why was
>>it sold?
>
>Some reasons:
>
>1)The claim that shredder9 is not better than shredder8 is only an opinion and
>there is a different opinion(Shredder9 has bigger rating than shredder8 in the
>ssdf list).
>
>2)The pv of shredder8 is less reliable than the pv of shredder9
>
>3)People do not buy only something that is stronger and there are other reasons
>to buy programs like different style.
>
>4)using a different personality that you believe that it is better.
>
>Unfortunately most people who use shredder9s prefer not to share information
>about it's results and testers prefer not to test shredder9s so we will probably
>never get information if shredder9s is better than default shredder.
>
>Uri


One reason why I bought Shredder 9 use a new engine option "Use tablebase
options .. never/late/early/normal" . Shredder 8 was very aggressive in its
search in using tablebases. With Shredder 9,  I always use the "late" option as
my preference.



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