Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 21:26:55 06/13/99
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On June 13, 1999 at 10:27:16, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On June 12, 1999 at 17:40:09, liam hearns wrote: > >>I have only recently purchased H7 ,whats the advantages of H7.32 apart from >>dos?.Is H7 now redundant-superseeded-oldhat-a dinosaur???. > > >It is ironic how much "Perceived Value" affects the average consumer. >"Perceived Value" is the process of the consumer seeing more expensive >items as being better than less expensive items, whether they are or not. > >We are answering questions all day long as to why Hiarcs 7.32 is 1/2 the >price of Hiarcs 7. "Is it weaker?" "Is it missing anything?" "Is it only >an engine?" "Does it have glitches?" "Is Hiarcs going out of business?". >Well, the answer is none of the above! It is simply less expensive and >THAT is hard to understand because "Perceived Value" is so ingrained >in all of us. > >The simple answer is that Hiarcs 7 is marketed by Hiarcs who had one >pricing strategy, and Hiarcs 7.32 is marketed by Chessbase who has >another pricing strategy. Hello Steve, The CD manual for Hiarcs doesn't say what Hiarcs needs for HT it just gives the formula used for Fritz which I can't believe is true for Hiarcs. The manual for Hiarcs is called Fritz 5.32. I believe, unless I missed it, there is no information on how to make use of the Tablebase 1.0 engine. It also doesn't explain the reason for using the Crafty 16.6 engine - the Fritz 5.32 manual gives descriptions of the engines included. There's no hash-table info on the screen to verify that it does not clear hash-tables after a move; therefore, who knows if it really does? In fact, there's no way of telling if it were malfunctioning. I could go on about what else is missing information wise but what's the point? I think I can understand why it's half the price.:) Don't get me wrong - it's an excellent program! It's just that they could have prepared the manual a whole lot better than what they did. And no hash-table info - for heaven sakes why??? Mel >- Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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