Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 12:43:05 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 15:24:56, Roger D Davis wrote: >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, The ChessBase programs are at DM 98. Thats more like $70!! I belive Rebel is in the same price range! >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. It all depends what you are using your program for, I mainly use it for analysing games, then you want to have correct lines in 0 time! But with a program comming out with superior hardware, its impossible for the Fritzes and Rebels to get the income to continue developing! Torstein > >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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