Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 00:44:32 12/30/99
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On December 29, 1999 at 06:19:54, Charles Unruh wrote: >Here's the statement from the chessbase site. > >"A new masterpiece from the Austrian Nimzowerkstatt. Nimzo7.32 is currently the >strongest program using the Fritz interface. In a Nunn-Match Nimzo scored 11,5: >8,5 points against with Fritz (Grandmaster Dr. John Nunn suggested a set of ten >standard positions from modern opening >theory as basis for a match between chess computers)." > >Now is nimzo7.32 the strongest program or is it that chessbase thinks that the >market for fritz and H7.32 are petering out a bit, so they make a claim of >another program which is even stronger? I just wonder because I can't see any >other way to make such a statement a good business behavior. Pah - one more lie. Has anyone till now found out how "strong" fritz6 is ?? you don't get ANY serious information. you can imagine WHY . it is weaker than fritz5.32... they sold you a weaker version :-))) has anyone until now any information seen about junior6 ? no. has anyone until now seen information about "the new" nimzo (its really funny, their are hundreds of different versions of nimzo all over the world. people say god has invented no manna machine but instead a machine that produces ONE nimzo after the other.) despite this PR-message on the CB-server ? no. strange statements of people who claim in the one moment that this program is strongest, and next sentence same paragraph they write that another program is best. so - how can you trust them anyway ? the strategy from chessbase for this christmas time and next millennium is clear: we have not made ANY title, we have lost the first rank in sweden, so we confuse the people selling one "NEW" version after the other, claiming all kind of different "information" and trying to confuse anybody as long as they could , so that nobody buys the programs that are really strong: that is shredder and tiger. nice strategy. but obviously trivial. i am sure the next "new" program unbeatable will reach us in january or february. with christian liebert claiming on css-server that it "beated" rebel-tiger in a match 34-33 :-)))) which great success. the energy-companies, the mobile-companies, the german telekom, the deutsche-bahn, and other companies drive the same strategy: make anything as complicated and confusing as possible, so that the desinformed people buy our products or believe we have the best and cheapest stuff. i am waiting for bill gates selling 4 different kinds of microsoft millennium for different users, different prices depending on when you use the program. between 8-12 a.m. you pay 99 $, if you mainly use windows from 1-3 p.m. you pay 150$, using it 4-6 p.m. you pay 198$ and using it 7-12 p.m. you play 250%. you can switch the versions for only 59$ and of course you get upgrades 2 times a month. on saturday you need a special version. but the reality is much easier to see. shredder and tiger lead. the rest is following, or ? or has anyone different results ?
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