Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 12:24:56 05/13/99
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I agree that a DB Jr. kills the market for Rebel, Fritz, etc., but this market is really very small. The average consumer has no need for a $200 (speculation, not fact) DB thingy, so there will always be a market for a program that's cheap and has a great interface and is FUN to play. And fun doesn't equate with strength. Who wants to get crushed over and over again in the same style? Nobody. We buy programs that kick our butts and then dumb them down so we can beat them. So would you rather have a dumbed down Fritz or a dumbed down DB? Doesn't really matter, because when FUN moves into the foreground, the commercials and DB are equally strong...just strong enough to give the user some fun, and no more. So...you're gonna see CM6000 (or 7000 or whatever) at the low end, and DB at the high end, if they can provide an interface that will compete with Fritz. If not, you're gonna see DB and Fritz split the high end, because there will be some people, like me, who just won't play anything with an aweful interface, no matter how bad it can crush me. Even if it plays like god. LOL. So if DB Jr is for real, and the interface is good, then I'd argue that only Fritz has a chance of surviving, since it is the only commercial that appears to have a chance of graduating into the mass market (extreme Chess did have some success). Roger On May 13, 1999 at 09:10:05, Torstein Hall wrote: >I think a DB chip will kill all the Fritzes, Rebels, Nimzos, Juniors and Hiarcs >of this world. What is the point in developing, or buying, something that is a >lot weaker than the "Micro Monster" :-) > >But perhaps it could be made with a programming interface, letting other >programs use it for search, and add their own evaluation functions etc.? > >Torstein
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