Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 18:06:51 04/08/99
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On April 08, 1999 at 20:04:32, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On April 08, 1999 at 16:09:01, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On April 08, 1999 at 14:13:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>On April 08, 1999 at 12:43:48, Steve Coladonato wrote: >>> >>>>Dave, >>>> >>>>I'm not sure what the problem is but it seemed to have started around the end of >>>>last year. >>>> >>>>I posted a message here about Shredder 3, nothing in particular, other than if >>>>anyone had used it yet and whether it would do a full game analysis. Subsequent >>>>replies prompted a reply "What's wrong with Shredder?" from Millennium and after >>>>that things went downhill. >>>> >>>>Steve >> >> >>He is not only a good guy, but as far as I know he left his promising career in >>maths to dedicate himself fully to chess programming development, so if there is >> a marketing failure of Schredder the fact is specially sad taking into account >>his profesional sacrifice. Nevertheless, in these days you cannot sell anything >>in this field at almost 200 DM. Even with 4 CD's as extra with endings table >>base that's too much money. >>Fernando > >Well I am not bothering with getting it now, after not getting any email >replies, and even my dealer having trouble contacting them, and when he does, he >get no where, or they do not bother to reply. I will not risk paying that much >for a program, I would say the support would be nil. > >So I say CM6K victim number one, Shredder will fall by the wayside, unable to >compete it the market place. Its a shame. It's indeed a shame. I also would not buy a program unless support is available, because there are always bugs found in new released programs. And if support is not available for it, then why bother at all buying something that is going to become a dinosaur. It's a shameful thing the way Millenium deals with consumers. :( Laurence
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