Author: David Beauregard
Date: 10:10:49 05/16/99
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On May 16, 1999 at 11:16:42, Laurence Chen wrote: >On May 16, 1999 at 10:37:07, ROBERT FLINT wrote: > >>im wondering if anyone else is rather pissed of at the fact that they paided >>119dollars americian plus ship and handling and now there is hiarcs7.32. >>hiarcs7.32 is only 98dm,around 56 dollars americian and probably much stronger >>than its dos relative for in has a table base included!! i think all the people >>who purchased hiarcs7.00 should get some sort of retribution. or in the future >>why buy from marc at all just wait till he sells out to chessbase!!!! >Although Mark said there would not be an engine for Hiarcs 7, that does not mean >that he was not allowed to change his mind. Besides, with the new technology >available, multiple processors, the way computer chess software is heading is >towards parallel processing. And DOS is only a 16 bits program and does not >support parallel processing. I understand your anger, however, one should not >put blame on the programmer, after all, he has to make a living, and the >pressures of economics can make one change his/her mind of how to sell one's >product. It's supply and demand. You paid for what it was worthy at that time, >it's like Real State, you go and buy a house hoping, or better, in your forecast >you believe that the price of Real State will go up. Then the opposite happens, >the price drops 50% and now you are locked into a mortage rate which is very >high, and there's absolutely nothing you can do. If you waited a little longer >perhaps you could have saved a lot of money. And that happens a lot in the >world. So try not to be pissed and try to enjoy the software and get most of it. >Next time, be wiser and understand the laws of economics, supply and demand. >Laurence Chen Laurence is correct because at the time Hiarcs7 was priced high but we were willing to pay that. I emailed Mark about a windows version and he replied that it would be a very long time before a windows version of Hiarcs would be out. This is a great and easy way for a windows version and he doesnt have to do the GUI. He only does this part time and I am sure Chessbase was happy to make this a windows version and Marc was happy to sell the rights. The consumer still comes out ahead because we now have one of the best programs in the world running under windows and at a cheaper price. So lets all say to thanks to Mark and Chessbase. They have given us a wonderful product. ....Dave Beauregard
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