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Subject: Re: why, is fritz 9 so neglected here? It is not inevitable

Author: M Hurd

Date: 05:55:16 01/27/06

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On January 27, 2006 at 04:23:25, Gabor Szots wrote:

>On January 27, 2006 at 01:11:11, g simmons wrote:
>
>>Chessbase overprices its products when compared with Lokasoft and Rybka's
>>offerings.
>
>Rybka costs 34 EUR, while e.g. HIARCS 10 is 50 EUR. Is it too much to pay 16 EUR
>for the excellent GUI? Remember that Shredder Classic is sold for 25 EUR, the
>upgrade price to Shredder 9 is 25 EUR, which means you pay 25 EUR for the GUI
>(and the Shredder Classic engine which is not very strong).
>
>I think the trouble with ChessBase is that you have to buy the same GUI all the
>time. They don't sell the engine by itself.
>
>Gábor

Er you may be wrong, I think the 50 EUR is for the engine. The GUI is free ;-)


Regards

Mike



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